Migrant hotels are anything but ‘luxurious’ - and barges are not the answer

Exclusive analysis by The Lead reveals far-right groups have conducted at least 66 hotel 'visits', protests and banner drops – intimidating migrants, spreading disinformation and demonising children.

This week the Government moved fifteen men onto the Bibby Stockholm, a barge sitting off the coast of Dorset, as part of its plan to reduce the number of migrant people being held in hotel accommodation – sometimes for months on end. 

The decision to house people seeking asylum on the barge, which is designed to accommodate up to 500, has drawn criticism…