Asylum seekers housed in utterly unacceptable conditions at barracks, MPs say
It was a “serious error of judgment” to think that military barracks could be suitable to house asylum seekers, the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has said. Cross-party members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Immigration Detention have written to Home Secretary Priti Patel to say they “entirely agree” with these concerns aired by Independent Chief Inspector David Bolt, whom they met last month. They branded the conditions at Napier Barracks in Kent and Penally Camp in Wales, where almost 200 people tested positive for coronavirus during an outb...