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Red doors for asylum seekers: MPs grill one of Britain’s richest landlords

“An unseemly and unsavoury” business? Stuart Monk of Jomast fails to impress.

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'All the complaints?' Stuart Monk of Jomast, Home Affairs Committee, January 2016

Last week a Parliamentary committee asked one of Britain’s richest landlords to hand over the complaints his company had received from its asylum-seeker tenants. “All the complaints?” replied Stuart Monk, owner and managing director of Jomast. “There’ll be a lot, there’ll be an enormous number.”  [video here: 5.31pm to 5.33pm]

After the Times revealed that G4S and Jomast, its subcontractor for asylum housing in England’s North East, had painted the doors of asylum seekers houses red, resulting in racist attacks and arson, the Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee summoned the companies to Westminster.