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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lizzie Dearden

Home Office ‘running to keep up with crisis’ over Channel crossing surge, says MP after visit

Reuters

The Home Office failed to make “adequate preparations” for a predicted surge in small-boat crossings in the English Channel, the chair of a parliamentary committee has said.

MPs have visited the Manston processing centre in Kent following the admission by officials that it had become overcrowded and that thousands of asylum seekers were being detained – potentially unlawfully – in tents.

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