The use of hundreds of hotels right across the country to house many thousands of asylum seekers, is one of the most contentious elements of the small boats crisis. Labour promised during the election campaign that they would end the Conservative government’s policy of migrant hotels. Sir Keir Starmer and his now Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper spoke regularly of the wasteful use of hotels, which has cost the nation as much as £8 million a day. But the revelation the new Government is actively negotiating with hotel chains once again, to secure more bed space for asylum seekers, is proof, if any…