Rishi Sunak’s “small boats week” has ended in humiliation for the government as it was forced to evacuate the Bibby Stockholm migrant barge following the discovery of dangerous Legionella bacteria.
The 39 asylum seekers who had been placed on the vessel in Portland, Dorset, were removed from it after the bacteria – which can cause a serious type of pneumonia – were found in the water supply, just days after the first migrants had arrived on board.
