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Yvonne Forsey, cabinet member for climate change and biodiversity, said the increase in incidents "has been matched by a corresponding increase in our action we have taken, which is in contrast to the picture across Wales as a whole".

Some prominent politicians, like Miri Regev, a cabinet member and former IDF spokeswoman, have called for action.

Louise Upton, the local cabinet member for planning, said the council could accommodate 10,000 of those, and that it hoped the new rules would make it more likely that surrounding councils would take on the other 14,000 and allow the city to expand.

Haigh said that her appointment as the “youngest ever” female Cabinet member “remains one of the proudest achievements of my life”.

In a Facebook post seen by the BBC, Coventry City Council’s cabinet member for finance Richard Brown said the government had told the authority of its decision to use a hotel in the city as “contingency asylum accommodation”.