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People boarding the Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge at Portland Port in Dorset, August 7, 2023
MINISTERS may need to learn lessons from the Bibby Stockholm Legionella outbreak, Number 10 admitted today after asylum-seekers were removed from the barge.
The government remains committed to housing migrants on barges in the face of a row about its response following the detection of dangerous bacteria on board the ship.
Downing Street also insisted that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak retained confidence in Home Secretary Suella Braverman, as questions continue to be asked about when Home Office officials were first informed.
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum