Landlords have 'ruthlessly dumped' students from an accommodation block after agreeing to a deal to move migrants into the luxury halls instead, while university bosses are 'wringing their hands' of the fiasco, a furious MP has said.
Home Office plans to move hundreds of asylum seekers into a 405-bed HD1 tower in Huddersfield, which has a cinema room and gym and where top-end studio flats can cost £200 a week, have outraged Labour MP Barry Sheerman.
The government deal means that more than 150 students who had reportedly already signed tenancy agreements have been forced to find alternative housing a week before the start of the academic year.
Mr Sheerman, who represents Huddersfield, told MailOnline: 'It's a total mess. There was pressure at one stage back in the day for universities to recognise they were education experts but not residential experts.
'A lot of universities sold all their accommodation to the private sector... Because of that now what seems to have transpired is that these guys have said, "oh this is nice, we get more money if we put asylum seekers in".
'Quite ruthlessly, they have dumped students who have built all their hopes and plans on these rather nice residences they thought they were going to get.'
