UK to shut down Bibby Stockholm migrant barge, Telegraph reports

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new Labour government will shut down a barge used for housing migrants off the south coast of England, as part of an overhaul of the asylum system, the Telegraph newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Use of the Bibby Stockholm barge, which can house up to 500 men, began under the Conservative government. Human rights campaigners have compared it to a prison ship and criticised its use as inhumane.