Home Office Examining Plan to House 1,500 Refugees in Liverpool Port

Home Office Examining Plan to House 1,500 Refugees in Liverpool Port
An undated image of the Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge, a 222-bedroom, three-storey vessel, which the Home Office plans to use to house 500 asylum seekers off Portland, Dorset, England. Bibby Marine/PA
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Home Office is examining a plan to house 1,500 refugees in a ship docked in one of the UK’s most deprived areas, a proposal that Labour has been described as “inhumane.”

Labour MP Mick Whitley criticised government proposals to accommodate the large number of asylum seekers at Liverpool’s Birkenhead port, accusing the Immigration Minister of ignoring repeated requests to respond to serious community concerns.

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