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Fears are skyrocketing just as ministers explore plans to formally open up wealthier parts of the nation to migrant housing

Women will be left "outnumbered six to one" if Labour floods a tiny Yorkshire village with more than a thousand "asylum seekers".

The Government is planning to move around 3,750 asylum seekers into three disused military sites, all on the doorstep of tiny villages.

Andy Burnham told GB News on Tuesday that more affluent areas would be made to "play their part" and take in asylum seekers.

Home Office Minister Anna Turley then fell in line, admitting that housing migrants in poorer areas of the country had led to "civil unrest".

But a Labour MP has now warned of how plans to move 1,200 men into RAF Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire as "unsuitable".

York Central MP Rachael Maskell has written to Ms Turley and will meet Home Office officials this month to make her case.

She told The Times politicians from all parties were "absolutely clear that this is not the right site", warning of the "huge demand" asylum seekers would place on water, sewage capacity and electricity.

Similar plans were shot down in 2022 after fierce local opposition, but the proposals are now under active consideration.

"It's just the wrong site," she said. "The last Government realised that once they got into the detail.

"All we're saying to this Government is that it's really important that they recognise that too, because the site is in a worse state now than it was when the Government last looked at this."

Professor Olga Matthias of the Linton Action Group told GB News that the village was "categorically the wrong place for so many reasons".

Staggeringly, one local estate agent claimed locals were "joyful" and were "skipping around the village basking in the knowledge at helping their suffering fellow man".

Churchill Estate Agents claimed to GB News that residents' fears were "figments of your imagination".

But local Tory councillor Malcolm Taylor said many families had moved to the village after the original plans were abandoned, thinking the same problems would not resurface.

"They've moved there for the peace, tranquillity and quality of life," he said. "This hand grenade has been thrown in."

After Andy Burnham threatened that more areas of the country would have to "play their part", his ministers are now poised to raise a rent cap on asylum accommodation in order to introduce illegal migrants to wealthier parts of Britain.

At the moment, private contractors can only propose homes for asylum housing that meet strict rent caps imposed by the Home Office - effectively excluding most wealthier areas.

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Ministers are now considering raising this cap, according to The Telegraph.

A Downing Street source told the newspaper last night: "Andy feels that the current system is unfair, and as a point of principle, he wants to see a redress of the distribution.

"We all want to see fewer people crossing to the UK and a decreased use of all asylum accommodation, but it needs to be fairer in the meantime.

"He acknowledges that it would cost more money to do it more fairly, but that is what we need to do."

On Wednesday, Ms Turley admitted to GB News there were just 1,500 asylum seekers in military bases - meaning tens of thousands of illegal migrants will indeed have to be housed around the nation.

"Military bases have provision of services, they keep people contained, they keep them away from the public on a specific site that are specifically used for that, so that they are not within the community and distributed, and that's our priority," she said.

Amid the row over some parts of the country being forced to "play their part", one man who lives in Piddington - next to an RAF base set to be home to thousands of migrants - hit out at Labour to GB News.

Jamie Perkin said locals would "all be willing to do a bit more than perhaps everyone is doing at the moment if the Government played their part" as he reacted to the Prime Minister's remarks.

"This isn't a case of left-wing, right-wing, rich or poor - or even in Andy Burnham's case, North against South.

"It's just a case of right and wrong, and what he's trying to put on our doorstep is quite simply wrong.

"There's nothing else that I can say about the situation, apart from everything that we've been given so far is wrong.

"It's the wrong place. It's on a main road. To listen to his interview yesterday... I was lost for words."