What the Prime Minister wants is for every town and village in the land to house ‘refugees and asylum seekers’– he believes it wouldn’t be fair if we ‘have a situation where it’s only the poorest communities in the country that receive all of the dispersal of refugees and asylum seekers’. Burnham clearly dimly discerns that people don’t like having asylum seekers living near them – why else would he not only want them housed in ‘the poorest communities’ – but he also seems to view their presence in the country as unavoidable. Bringing vast numbers of asylum seekers to parts of rural England which have previously been untouched by mass migration is going to prove deeply unpopular (and indeed, even the local Lib Dems in Piddington are opposing asylum seekers being housed there).