A HOTEL for Channel migrants is empty — after taxpayers forked out £1.5million to rent it.
The 162-room Holiday Inn Express was block-booked by the Home Office for five months, starting in November.
But councillors in Oxford object to it being used as an asylum centre.
Una fuente dijo: “It’s staggering.
“Since the Government booking it’s been closed to the public with a skeleton staff.”
A Home Office source said it hopes to negotiate a lower rate for the hotel, attached to Oxford United’s Kassam football stadium.
Rooms usually start at £50 a night and have TVs and air con.
Más que 18,000 migrantes are in hotels throughout the country.
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