by Bethany Rielly
PRITI PATEL is facing allegations of having misled MPs over coronavirus safety at asylum-seeker accommodation after inspectors found squalid conditions at two sites.
On Monday, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons and the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders & Immigration branded Penally camp in Pembrokeshire and Napier Barracks in Kent, where hundreds of asylum-seekers have been held since September, “impoverished,” “run-down” and in some areas “filthy.”
Inspectors accused the Home Office of “fundamental failures” in leadership and planning, with Ms Patel’s department having only given contractors two weeks to prepare the sites.
Their findings back up warnings from Public Health England and Public Health Wales that the accommodation was not fit for use during the pandemic.
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