Bibby Stockholm delay adds to disarray of Sunak’s ‘stop the boats’ pledge

As with the Rwanda plan, the PM has been frustrated in his attempts to house asylum seekers on a giant barge

It should have been the week when another key element of Rishi Sunak’s plans to tackle small boat Channel crossings finally fell into place.

Instead, yet more delays have frustrated the movement of the first 50 migrants on to the Bibby Stockholm. The three-storey-high barge was billed by the Home Office as a way of providing “cheaper and more orderly accommodation for those arriving in small boats”.