UK sets up two new barges to house asylum seekers. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to drastically reduce the number of Channel crossings.
A thousand asylum seekers will be able to be accommodated, while their applications are examined, on these two barges that look like a long block of container apartments on three floors placed on the water. A first barge is due to enter service this month, in Portland, at an estimated daily cost of 20,000 euros. In Portland, residents demonstrated to protest the arrival of the boat and the approximately 500 migrants.