A hotel tycoon dubbed the ‘Asylum King’ lives in a £3.4million Cheshire mansion and is raking in nearly £100,000 of profit every day despite his chain being ranked the worst in the UK for an entire decade.
Alex Langsam has built up an estimated £248m fortune through Britannia Hotels, which enjoys lucrative taxpayer-funded contracts to house asylum seekers across its 60 sites – at least 17 of which are said to have been block-booked.
The entrepreneur has previously boasted of Britannia’s role in safeguarding the future of some of Britain’s most historic hotels, including the Adelphi in Liverpool – which was used by passengers on the Titanic – and the Grand in Scarborough.
