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.
Speaking in the Commons on Thursday, Whitley—who represents Birkenhead—said the area’s already overstretched health and support services would struggle to cope with such an influx.
He said officers at Wirral Council were first approached by Home Office officials on April 14 with proposals to house “up to 1,500 vulnerable asylum seekers” on a vessel berthed in Birkenhead….