Claim: 48,000 illegal immigrants stay in hotels.
Fact-check: Figures for people seeking asylum in hotels and veterans sleeping rough are both wrong - Full Fact
Verdict: this is false. it uses a figure for people seeking asylum  in accommodation, but they are not all in hotels. the number of people seeking asylum staying temporarily in "contingency accommodation", which can include hotels, is closer to 1,000.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2020-08-28T00:00:00