Robert Jenrick says UK asylum seekers should be held in ‘rudimentary prisons’

Shadow justice minister, seen as nurturing Tory leadership hopes, criticises Reform’s immigration plans as too weak

Robert Jenrick has called for asylum seekers to be detained in “camps” with facilities like “rudimentary prisons”, in an apparent attempt to outflank Reform with his anti-immigration rhetoric.

The shadow justice secretary told Tim Shipman at the Spectator of his hope for a “decade of net emigration” as Britain “now needs breathing space after this period of mad migration”.