The paper says it has been told that migrants will continue to be housed in hotels for up to three years because the asylum backlog will take much longer to clear than Labour thought.
Ending the use of hotels was one of Sir Keir Starmer’s election pledges, though the party gave no time frame.
According to the paper, Home Office officials had expected to stop using the last hotel within a year. But Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is said to have conceded privately it would take longer to clear the backlog.
The Telegraph notes that her predecessor, James Cleverley, told a fringe event at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham that it was a mistake to use the phrase “stop the boats” about tackling migrant crossings.
The Tory leadership contender said its use distilled a complicated problem into a soundbite.
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