Home Office faces legal challenge against use of Bibby Stockholm barge for refugees
The barge is a key part of the government’s policy to end the use of hotel accommodation for asylum seekers.
The barge is a key part of the government’s policy to end the use of hotel accommodation for asylum seekers.
Sunak has accepted that he may not be able to stop the small boat crossings by the next general election, citing the ‘complexity of the issue’.
‘Expect the worst from Tories. They want to join Russia and Belarus as the only countries outside the ECHR.’
‘This lot have been in Government for 13 years. After their abject failure all that’s left is stoking up more division and hate.’
‘The winners from this cruel plan will be the Home Office’s asylum housing contractors’
“Is it not time that Government Back-Benchers felt as embarrassed as we are that this is happening in our country?”
‘A man so utterly lacking in humanity’
Among the fiercest critics of the bill is the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
Welby slammed the bill as a “low point” and “inhumane”.
Orlando Fraser once stood as a Tory party candidate and is a founding fellow of the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a right-wing think tank.