{"id":75167,"date":"2025-05-13T05:56:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T05:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75167"},"modified":"2025-05-13T05:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T05:56:40","slug":"the-asylum-king-how-an-essex-businessman-made-a-billion-from-migrant-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/13\/the-asylum-king-how-an-essex-businessman-made-a-billion-from-migrant-hotels\/","title":{"rendered":"The asylum king: How an Essex businessman made a billion from migrant hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1EDJ7l.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6&amp;x=636&amp;y=158&amp;s=173&amp;d=173\" alt=\"Visual of Graham King, asylum seeker housing, money and asylum seekers on raft boats\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The scene was a Westminster committee room, the year 2016, and a former Army major, grey-haired and dressed in suit and tie \u2013 was facing an uncomfortable line of questioning.\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/the-asylum-king-how-an-essex-businessman-made-a-billion-from-migrant-hotels\/ar-AA1EDXUy?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=7f3837a007a240ad92e5b4f7b5d7e0be&amp;ei=34\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The scene was a Westminster committee room, the year 2016, and a former Army major, grey-haired and dressed in suit and tie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Graham-King.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75168,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75167\/revisions\/75168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}