The Home Office's ‘knee-jerk' asylum policy faces a key test after a council accused ministers of threatening a £300m levelling up project.

West Lindsey DC recently agreed in principle a 10-year regeneration programme for RAF Scampton, designed to boost housing, attract new businesses and create 1,000 jobs while retaining the historic airfield, which is the former home of the Dambusters squadron and the Red Arrows.