Labour approves asylum site near Piddington village which voted to leave UK in protest over plans

The Mirror reports the approval of the MoD Bicester asylum site fairly straightforwardly, attributing the ministers' case and the opponents' anger to the people who made them. In one sentence it calls the people to be housed "detained asylum seekers", although its own sources describe accommodation, not detention.

1. Describes accommodation as detention

   Minor

   “accommodation for detained asylum seekers”

   Why this matters

   The words "detained asylum seekers" tell the reader that the people moved to the former barracks will be held in detention.

   The impression it gives

   A reader comes away thinking the site is a detention facility for people who are locked up, which suggests they have done something to warrant it.

   The context

   Everywhere else the article and its sources describe temporary asylum accommodation, not detention. The minister speaks of housing 1,256 male asylum seekers, and the ministry speaks of the temporary, phased use of a storage site. Nothing in the material says anyone will be detained.

   How we know

   • Elsewhere in the article“house 1,256 male asylum seekers”
   • Elsewhere in the article“temporary, phased use of the former MoD Bicester storage site”
   • The Independent reported“accommodation for over 1,200 male asylum seekers”Angry local residents to fight Piddington migrant housing plans in the courts (opens in a new tab)