Rishi Sunak defends Bibby Stockholm plan after series of setbacks
The Prime Minister suggested the plan to house asylum seekers on a barge was fairer for the taxpayer than putting them up in hotels.
The Prime Minister suggested the plan to house asylum seekers on a barge was fairer for the taxpayer than putting them up in hotels.
The same company was heavily criticised for its handling of Covid quarantine hotels and travel tests, but it got the £1.6bn contract anyway.
Legionnaires' disease is believed to be fatal in 10 per cent of cases.
MPs have serious questions for the Home Office and government officials, after Legionella was discovered at the site of the Bibby Stockholm barge.
All 39 asylum seekers who arrived on the vessel, docked in Portland Port in Dorset, will now be moved off it.
There's a reason the Tories want you to focus on Lee Anderson's foul-mouthed comments - they don't want any attention to be paid to the other thing he said.
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