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A view of the Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge at Portland Port in Dorset
THE last eight asylum-seekers living on the Bibby Stockholm were set to leave the prison-like barge today, according to Portland Global Friendship Group.
Hundreds of men have departed the 500-capacity vessel moored in Portland, Dorset, after the government said it would not renew its contract which expires in January.
Commissioned in April 2023, the discovery of dangerous bacteria led to its evacuation last summer just days after the arrival of the first asylum-seekers in August, and it remained vacant for two months.
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
