21 September 2025: Manchester Evening News: The truth about asylum seeker hotels

SPECIAL REPORT: As protests continue outside hotels housing people seeking asylum in our region, the Manchester Evening News looks at how we ended up in this situation, what the government is planning to do about it and where asylum seekers will go when the hotels are closed.

[…] The number of decisions made on asylum applications has increased since the Labour government came to power last year.

However, according to GMIAU, the ‘rushed process’ means that many are being wrongly rejected and appealing these decisions.

“Although the Home Office has sped up decision making, the rushed process is affecting the quality of decision making, meaning that many are being wrongly refused asylum,” a spokesperson for GMIAU said.

“This means that the ‘backlog’ has effectively been transferred to the courts system – and people still need to be housed while awaiting their appeal. […]