A LABOUR government would seek to remove all private sector involvement in the asylum accommodation process, a Glasgow candidate has said.

Paul Sweeney, who is standing for the party in Glasgow North East, slammed the Home Office’s designation of ‘failed asylum seekers’, calling the current system 'inappropriate’.

According to Mr Sweeney, Wednesday’s Court of Session judgement would be ‘critical’ to the party’s immigration policy if they enter Downing Street.

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As well as this, he said the party would immediately close all immigration detention centres, describing them as ‘effectively concentration camps’.

Mr Sweeney added: “If there is a change in government we will seek to remove all private sector involvement in the asylum accommodation process as a first step and ensure it is based on the basis of human dignity, that there are no summary evictions, and that there is a cooling off period in which no-one will be made destitute.”