The Reform MP has hit out at (Image: Getty)
Rupert Lowe has taken to X to rage over reports asylum seekers have been “hanging around” UK primary schools after police dubbed one such instance a “cultural issue”.
Mr Lowe, who is Reform UK MP for Great Yarmouth, where the government has committed to for local hotels, said anyone who thinks they would be comfortable with asylum seekers “lurking around when your daughter walks home” was “deluded”.
He said: “Imagine a hotel down the road from your child’s school is suddenly filled with unchecked foreign males from alien cultures. No consultation, it just happens.
“If MPs are confident enough to allow these unchecked men to roam around our communities, they should be confident enough to welcome them into their own homes.
“My request to officially establish such a scheme, offering that choice to MPs, was sadly .”
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Asylum seekers were reported hanging around outside the primary school (Image: Google)
His angry comments come after Northamptonshire Police received complaints of men loitering outside Deanshanger Primary School in Milton Keynes in December, prompting officers to pledge to “deliver work” around “appropriate behaviours” and “cultural expectations” for the asylum seekers.
The primary school, in a small village on the outskirts of the Buckinghamshire city, sits next to an asylum seekers’ hotel which has reportedly been the subject of police investigations linked to “suspicious activity” since it opened three years ago.
Parents were sent a letter by staff last month after becoming aware of “some men hanging around outside the school during drop-off and pick-up times”, something they said they were taking “seriously”.
Sergeant Lorna Clarke from the neighbourhood policing scheme said there was “no evidence to support [the belief] that any offences had taken place” and urged locals not to take matters into their own hands.
Mr Lowe added on X: “Unchecked illegal migrants should be allowed NOWHERE near primary or secondary schools – they shouldn’t be free to roam the streets, they should be securely detained.
“I did ask the Home Office to implement protection zones around schools when there is a migrant hotel nearby. They refused. Let’s remember, they don’t even inform residents of when a local hotel is being hijacked. Again, I asked the Home Office to implement such a consultation process.
“They refused. Their opening line in response? Stating they have an ‘obligation to provide destitute asylum seekers with accommodation and subsistence support’. Remind me – who is the Home Office supposed to be serving? It should be declared a national security emergency and treated as such.
“These unchecked foreign males are NOT welcome in our communities – every single one should be deported. But above all else – let these unchecked men NOWHERE NEAR school children.”
Speaking in Westminster on Tuesday, Mr Lowe said the UK’s “message to the world” should be that “if you come here illegally, you will be deported, not housed in luxury accommodation, fed and cared for at the taxpayer’s expense … [or] allowed to roam the streets entirely unchecked”.
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Mr Lowe has also been at the forefront of calls for another national inquiry into , a prospect rejected by MPs by 364 votes to 111 earlier this month.
During a debate on January 8, the Great Yarmouth representative asked the Government to commit to “urgently deporting all guilty foreign nationals involved [in the scandal], including family members who were aware of the crimes and therefore complicit”.
The issue has also been pushed by on his social media platform, prompting Labour politicians to accuse Reform and the of “marching to the beat of Musk’s drum” and “weaponising the pain and trauma of victims for their own political ends”.
The Prime Minister said that a further inquiry could delay action being taken on tackling child sexual abuse, pointing out that recommendations from a seven-year probe that concluded in 2022 had yet to be implemented.