Migrants must get back on Bibby Stockholm barge despite outrage over legionella, Health Secretary says

Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge at Portland Port in Dorset, where asylum seekers are being removed due to the discovery of Legionella bacteria in the water supply.Shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock wrote to his opposite number on Saturday asking what the Home Office knew about the risk of the bacteria being present before moving migrants onto the barge.

He said: "The primary thing that's been revealed has been the startling incompetence of the Home Office itself... It's really, really hard to understand how, at all layers, this could not be caught early". "So it's not a solution to the problem and all of this is going to go on until the Home Office is able to process these arrivals more quickly."

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