The home secretary avoided questions from the press as she met the Dover coastguard and travelled to the Manston facility in a Chinook
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While North Thanet's MP Sir Roger Gale was also seen leaving the processing centre, Dover MP Natalie Elphicke said it was a"great pity" that the home secretary had not taken the opportunity to meet other Kent politicians."The small boats crisis is not just in the migrant processing facilities, it is on our Kent beaches, schools, services and housing," she added.
The Home Office has said steps are being taken"immediately" to improve conditions at Manston - enhancing medical facilities, supplying extra bedding as well as providing better catering. "To break the business model of the people smugglers, we need to ensure that the illegal migration route across the Channel is ultimately rendered unviable."Migrant from Manston left strandedAn asylum seeker who says he was among a group of migrants left stranded in central London on Tuesday night has said they were not told where they were going by officials.
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