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The Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge arrives into Falmouth docks, Cornwall.
THE Bibby Stockholm could be “confined to the dustbin of history,” Portland Mayor Caroline Parks said as she prepares to take Home Secretary Suella Braverman to court over a failure to obtain planning permission.
The vessel was to be used as accommodation for asylum-seekers, despite health and safety warnings, but was delayed after Legionella bacteria was discovered in the water supply in August — only days after 39 asylum-seekers had moved in.
Ms Parks told the Stand Up to Racism fringe meeting at the Labour conference that she spoke to some of the men who were “incarcerated” on the vessel and they described it “as like being in a prison.” Some of the men who had been in prison in Iraq got flashbacks.
May elections will soon be upon us and SABBY DHALU calls for a maximum mobilisation, across Britain, to defeat Reform UK and the right at the ballot box
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
DIANE ABBOTT MP argues that Labour’s proposals contained in the recent white paper won’t actually bring down immigration numbers or win support from Reform voters — but they will succeed in making politics more nasty and poisonous