GB News presenter Bev Turner didn’t hold back when she tore into the eye-watering profits of a company that’s been housing asylum seekers on behalf of the government — and making tens of millions while doing it.
Speaking live on GB News, Bev was visibly fuming over Stay Belvedere Hotels Limited (SBHL), the firm behind 51 hotels across England and Wales, used for asylum accommodation. The company raked in more than £50 million in profit last year — and that’s straight out of taxpayers’ pockets.
“Guess what their record profit was last year,” Bev said. “£50 million record profits from you at home. I am going to get T-shirts made which say ‘why is everyone so stupid?’ on them. It’s just awful.”
She was clear that this wasn’t a party-political dig either. “To be clear, this isn’t just a Labour issue. This was happening under the Conservatives. These stupid deals were signed by them.”
The backlash comes after SBHL was dropped from the Home Office supply chain. The government confirmed the move after concerns were raised about the company’s behaviour and whether it was providing value for money. The firm had been handling around a quarter of all asylum accommodation for the Home Office — including the often-criticised Napier Barracks in Kent.
The original contract with SBHL, signed back in 2019 under the Conservatives, is reportedly worth a massive £2 billion a year. And here’s the kicker: the Home Office can’t fully exit the contract without a payout until at least September 2026. Not exactly the swift change many hoped for.
Angela Eagle, the minister for border security and asylum, confirmed the decision: “We have made the decision to remove Stay Belvedere Hotels from the Home Office supply chain and will not hesitate to take further action.”
The Treasury’s Office for Value for Money also flagged that some of the companies involved in finding hotel space for migrants have been making record profits, sparking fresh claims of profiteering off the crisis.
Right now, over 38,000 asylum seekers are staying in UK hotels — that’s costing us all £5.5 million every single day. For context, that’s 8,000 more than when Keir Starmer promised to end the use of asylum hotels during his campaign.
Fellow GB News host Andrew Pierce didn’t mince his words either. “The migrants are laughing at us. The French police are waving them off. Macron is laughing too,” he said, slamming the UK’s current strategy. He argued Labour should’ve at least given the Rwanda deportation plan a shot as a deterrent. With numbers rising and millions being spent daily, the debate is only heating up.
