Today (Wednesday 5 April), the UK Home Office has announced that an accommodation barge in Portland Port, Dorset will be used to reduce intense pressure on the UK’s unsustainable asylum system and cut taxpayers´ expense caused by the major increase in Channel crossings, according to government sources.
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