Two large cruise ships, intended to accommodate up to 1,000 asylum seekers, have been unable to secure docking locations and have been returned to their owners, according to a senior source briefed on the matter.
In an effort to reduce the government’s daily expenditure of £6 million on hotel accommodations for asylum seekers arriving in the UK via small boat Channel crossings, the government had acquired two additional vessels alongside the Bibby Stockholm barge, which recently arrived in Dorset.
