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A Syrain asylum seeker has challenged his move to the Bibby Stockholm barge on mental grounds.The man told Sky News he had come to the UK to escape war and conflict, but said the small rooms on the barge remind him of when he had to go into hiding from ISIS back in Syria.The man said: “We are looking for more space. We run away from war, trauma and conflict.“If you squeeze me into a place you are putting me back to that space where I was hidng when ISIS was attacking our area.” More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Russia is suspected of being behind the cyber attack on the Electoral Commission which left the data of 40 million UK voters exposed, sparking fears of an attempt to “interfere” with British democracy. […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak’s dilemma over whether to call an early election has deepened after economists warned the UK is likely to be plunged into recession at the end of next year. A report by […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Conservative Party deputy chair Lee Anderson has refused to apologise for his claim that asylum-seekers who do not want to live on the government’s Bibby Stockholm barge “should f*** off back to France”. […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Kwasi Kwarteng admitted at the weekend that he was badly hit by his own disastrous mini-Budget – revealing his mortgage payments had soared “a great deal”. The former Tory chancellor has also struggled […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Details of tens of millions of voters could have been accessed by hackers who targeted the Electoral Commission, the elections watchdog admitted. The organisation has revealed its systems were breached back in October, […] More

Lee Anderson’s comments on migrants boarding the Bibby Stockholm were “not unreasonable,” Alex Chalk has said.The Tory deputy chairman told the Express: “If they don’t like barges then they should f*** off back to France.”The incendiary comments came after 15 migrants boarded the barge in Portland, Dorset.Twenty others have been granted a last-minute reprieve after legal challenges.The justice secretary said Lee Anderson “expresses the righteous indignation of the British people” and added that his “indignation is well placed”. More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Details of tens of millions of voters could have been accessed by hackers who targeted the Electoral Commission, the elections watchdog admitted. The organisation has revealed its systems were breached back in October, […] More