LABOUR yesterday admitted it would house Channel migrants in barges and converted Army bases – despite moaning about the plans for months.
The climbdown came as ministers insisted the first lot of migrants will move into the Bibby Stockholm barge off the Dorset coast “in the coming days”.
Labour’s Shadow Immigration Minister Stephen Kinnock said: “The reality is that we’ve got tens of thousands of people in hotels.
“We need to get them out of hotels and we need to get them off the barges and out of the military camps too.
“But because of the complete and utter chaos and shambles of the Tory asylum crisis, we are going to have to continue in a very short-term period to use the infrastructure that is there – including the barges and the hotels.”