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The Latest Breaking News on Hundreds of Afghans evacuated from Pakistan ‘dumped’ in military bases as UK scrambles to find them homes

Asylum barge plan ‘unworkable’, critics say after Suella Braverman’s missed target

Suella Braverman promised MPs on June 5 that the Bibby Stockholm barge would be in Portland Port within a fortnight

Evening Standard

Asylum barge plan ‘unworkable’, critics say after Braverman’s missed target

Suella Braverman promised MPs on June 5 that the Bibby Stockholm barge would be in Portland Port within a fortnight.

The Independent UK

Yousaf sides with council in Home Office row over housing asylum seekers on ship

Edinburgh City Council is contesting plans for the MS Victoria, docked in Leith.

The Independent UK

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Llanelli hotel will accommodate 241 asylum seekers, says council leader

Cllr Darren Price said they will arrive in groups of up to 55 from July 10 and urges the Home Office not to press on with its 'unwise move'

Wales Online

Government could be forced to pay millions to police asylum barges and military bases

Exclusive: Suella Braverman approves new police funding policy amid ‘intense’ negotiations in Dorset

The Independent UK

Up to 90 more hotels could be needed to house Channel migrants, MPs told

Home Secretary Suella Braverman was grilled about plans to accommodate new arrivals crossing the Strait of Dover as plans for more barges flop

Daily Mirror

Merseyside objections ended 'inhumane' plan to house asylum seekers in barge off Wirral

Wirral Council leader Paul Stuart said: "This knee-jerk policy is simply unworkable"

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No asylum seeker barge site for Liverpool, says Government

The MP for Birkenhead had described the craft as a 'floating prison ship'

Wales Online

Home Office no longer considering asylum seeker barge site near Liverpool

Peel Ports said it could ‘not see any conceivable scenario’ in which public services locally could support the Birkenhead proposal.

The Independent UK

Plans to house asylum seekers in a barge on Mersey scrapped, according to reports

Sky News reports that Peel Ports rejected the plans

Liverpool Echo

Council leader hits out at 'inhumane' asylum seeker barges after reports vessel could be moored near Newcastle

A report this week suggested that Tyneside could be one of the locations where the Government plans to moor one of the controversial accommodation vessels

Chronicle Live

Home Office backs down on plan for asylum seekers to sleep four to a room

Move follows protest by refugees who had been told they would be sharing small London hotel rooms

The Guardian - UK

Giant vessel housing asylum seekers could be docked in Plymouth

Devon port among south coast sites examined by Home Office staff amid calls for legal challenge to policy

The Guardian - UK

‘Cruel’ asylum barge plan rejected in London, Sadiq Khan tells Braverman

Labour mayor tells Tory home secretary to ‘abandon’ plan to put small boat arrivals in vessels

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Permission for asylum seeker barge in London rejected, confirms Royal Docks

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he backed the decision as he implored the Home Secretary to abandon her plan to use vessels for refugee accommodation.

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan demands Home Office rule out asylum seeker barge in east London

The Mayor has outlined his opposition to a barge for hundrends of refugees in the Royal Docks, amid warnings he would not be able to block the plan

The Independent UK

Sadiq Khan ‘strongly opposed’ to any London asylum seekers barge plan

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said he opposes ‘in the strongest possible terms’ any Home Office plans to moor another barge at the Royal Docks.

The Guardian - UK

Cram them into a shoebox: that’s Britain’s new anti-migrant strategy – and it won’t work

Refugees are right to protest about being a plan which forces them into unsuitable accommodation. It’s more cruelty by design, says Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council

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Liverpool Echo

Protestors call on firm to show 'humanitarian side' over 'terrible' asylum seeker plans

The plans would be "a recipe for disaster" according to those protesting in Liverpool

Chronicle Live

Thousands of asylum seekers could be housed in vessels on Tyneside, according to sources

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has revealed that two more barges will be used for migrant accommodation

The Independent UK

Liverpool and Middlesbrough could host next barges for asylum seekers – reports

Rishi Sunak revealed two more giant vessels will be used for migrant accommodation.

Evening Standard

Tory MP says Rishi Sunak’s migrant barges will be ‘quasi-prison’

Dorset MP Richard Drax says ‘no key questions have been answered’ about barge in his constituency

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak announces two more barges will be used to house 1,000 asylum seekers

The Prime Minister, visiting a Border Force facility in Dover, said that a controversial plan to house asylum seekers in a barge would be operational within a fortnight, and added that two more vessels had been secured - but refused to say where

Nottingham Post

Nottinghamshire MP says Asylum system ‘riddled with abuse’ and needs fundamental change

He said migrants will be asked to share hotel rooms as the Government comes under pressure to reduce net migrations

Evening Standard

Asylum system ‘riddled with abuse’ and needs fundamental change, says Robert Jenrick

The Immigration Minister said people arriving in small boats ‘risk cannibalising the compassion’ of the UK public.

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