New pictures have emerged of French police clearing up the final refugees at the Calais migrant camp before demolition work begins. Some 2,000 migrants left voluntarily on Monday for centres across France, with hundreds more leaving today. The tents and structures that formed "The Jungle" which was once home to some ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Emmanuel Macron, the French finance minister, has warned that if the UK left the EU it could lead to migrants crossing the channel “unchecked.” He believes the British withdrawal from European project would bring to a close the 2003 treaty that allows UK border guards ...
The incident is said to have happened shortly after Leonard Farruku, an Albanian asylum seeker, died while living on board the barge in December.
Multiple former residents told the Bibby Stockholm: A People’s Inquiry of conditions on board the barge.
“It is absolutely chilling", the UK’s illegal migration minister, Michael Tomlinson, told GMB after hearing the reports.
"This blows a hole in the Government's feeble assertion that the Supreme Court was wrong, and that Rwanda is a safe country for refugees."
A small boat carrying about 60 passengers got into difficulty around five miles off the northern French coast on Thursday night.
The first asylum seekers were brought back to the giant vessel, moored in Portland, Dorset, in October, some two months after it was evacuated.
Campaigners welcomed the verdict with the Freedom from Torture charity hailing it as a “victory for reason and compassion”.