Government ministers are reportedly considering sending migrants to Ascension Island - located around 4,000 miles away - if their Rwanda plans fall through.
The firefighters’ union warned concerns over overcrowding and access to fire exits would make the Bibby Stockholm a ‘potential deathtrap’.
However, immigration minister Robert Jenrick offered a guarantee that it is a ‘safe facility’ and said it would welcome its first occupants ‘in the coming days’.The developments as the government’s ‘small boats week’ begins, with several announcements aimed at tackling the crisis in the English Channel.
Fines for employers and landlords who allow people who arrive by irregular means to work for them or live in their properties are to be hugely increased. Civil penalties for employers will be increased up to a maximum of £45,000 per worker for a first breach and £60,000 for repeat offenders, tripling both from the last increase in 2014.
Landlords face fines going from £1,000 per occupier to £10,000, with repeat breaches going from £3,000 to £20,000. Penalties relating to lodgers will also be hiked.
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