- Title: UK to shut down Bibby Stockholm migrant barge, Telegraph reports
- Date: 23rd July 2024
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- Keywords: Bibby Stockholm Dorset Migration Portland asylum barge hotel migrants refugees small boats
- Location: PORTLAND, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
- City: PORTLAND, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
- Country: UK
- Topics: Europe,Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001113423072024RP1
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- Story Text: Britain's new Labour government will shut down a barge used for housing migrants off the south coast of England, the Telegraph newspaper reported on Tuesday (July 23).
Use of the Bibby Stockholm barge, which can house up to 500 men, began under the previous Conservative government.
Human rights campaigners have compared it to a prison ship and criticised its use as inhumane.
The new Labour Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has pledged to overhaul the asylum system and the method of dealing with migrants who enter the UK via illegal means.
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