No 10 distances itself from minister’s remark about asylum seekers’ ‘cheek’

Chris Philp's comments spark row as government faces pressure to fix chaos' at Manston refugee centre

No 10 has distanced itself from a Home Office minister's remarks that it is a bit of cheek" for asylum seekers to complain about the conditions at migrant processing centres.

The government has come under criticism for allowing 4,000 people to be held at the Manston centre, a short-term holding facility in Kent, which is designed to hold no more than 1,600 asylum seekers for only a few days.