Nana Akua outraged at migrants being given 'trips to crazy golf' and takeaways by UK councils: 'Why are we doing this?!'

Reform's Department of Local Government Efficiency audit found Kent County Council to be one of the worst offenders, all paid from migrant-related budgets, which was then claimed back from central Government.

The report found £11,521 was spent at Currys, £70,056 at Argos and £12,328 with Voucherline gift cards.

Discussing the findings on GB News, host Nana Akua pressed former Legal Migration Minister Tom Pusglove on the spending, questioning why illegal migrants are not being "given the basics".

Nana fumed: "What about the pull factor, the things that we are giving the migrants when they get here? Seriously, why? Why are we doing that? Is there no way we can stop some of that?

"Why are we dishing out so much? Why are we giving people Amazon vouchers, why are we sorting out McDonald's and Nando's vouchers? Surely it should be the most basic things. Why are they allowed to just roam freely in the UK?"

Pursglove responded: "That's why the only real answer is that when people arrive, detain them and relocate them.

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"The problem is that those who are managing this crisis day to day on the ground would argue that they need to have various tools at their disposal to try and manage this, because they're dealing with huge pressure here. And what you don't want is a situation where you've got a hotel with a riot happening around it, because you've got a load of young men in a hotel."

Criticising the inability for the Labour Government to get a grip on the migrant crisis, Nana stated: "I don't see an end to this, I really don't.

"The politicians I think they're too stupid to work out a solution, and they're bound by all this nonsense and all the legal mumbo jumbo and the industry that has become the asylum system, which is full of lawyers who are quite happy to take the money, and all of this is at the expense of the taxpayer. There has to be a way to stop this."

Agreeing with Nana, Pursglove told GB News: "I've been saying for a while that politicians and the judiciary have got to get real, because the public are getting more and more angry.

"I actually worry that the one in, one out overselling is going to make the public even more angry on this and feel the whole thing is even more unjust, because it's just not a credible solution to fundamentally tackle the issue to the extent it needs to."

Hitting out at the Government's decision to use the term "irregular migration" over illegal migration, Pursglove added: "What is happening is completely unfair and completely wrong on every level. The Government's downgraded all the terminology.

"We used to call this illegal migration, which is what it is, they're now calling it irregular migration. I don't think anybody in communities up and down the UK would regard this as irregular migration, it should be called out for what it is."

Noting that Labour has "walked back" on many Tory policies, Pursglove concluded: "We banned people from being able to claim or to be able to have asylum in the event that they arrived illegally. The Government has walked all that back, which creates exactly the conditions that you're talking about, that then only add to the pull factors that are already existing."

Kent Council told the Mail on Sunday that "most of the spending highlighted was for unaccompanied asylum seeker children or asylum seekers aged between 18 and 25 who have left the care system but remain the responsibility of the council – known as 'care leavers".