Priti Patel plans to dump 300 cross-Channel refugees in a “prison camp” with no drainage, mains water or sewage and little health care, say MPs.
The Home Secretary is using special powers to bypass planning regulations to get the camp up and running in a Hampshire village by January 1, when Brexit transition ends.
Local Tory MP and former Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes branded the scheme “inhuman”. And shadow Immigration minister Holly Lynch added: “This is an unworkable half-plan leaving incredibly vulnerable people in limbo.” The asylum seekers, all single migrant men, will be housed on 9.6 acres of derelict Ministry of Defence land near the village of Barton Stacey.
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