The housing minister Grant Shapps has encountered 39 individual tenants – 22 of them illegal immigrants – being housed in "squalid and overcrowded" conditions after a dawn raid on six properties in the London borough of Ealing.
The raid coincides with new guidance being launched by the Government making clear the wide range of powers councils have at their disposal to shut down so-called “beds in sheds”.
Mr Shapps and immigration minister Damian Green attended the raid with of...
