The High Court judge has found former Home Secretary Suella Braverman acted unlawfully in accommodating three asylum seekers at a former RAF base. The men - who were at MDP Wethersfield in Essex between July 2023 and February 2024 - argued they were living in "prison-like" conditions.

Mr Smith said the government had closed the Bibby Stockholm migrant barge which housed asylum seekers and “must now do the same with Wethersfield”. “Everyone seeking safety in the UK deserves to be housed in communities, not camps,” he added.

A result of this was that vulnerable asylum seekers with special needs or disabilities could be judged suitable to be accommodated at Wethersfield, the judge said. Four former res

The Government acted “unlawfully” by accommodating four vulnerable asylum seekers at RAF Wethersfield, a High Court judge has ruled. Mr Justice Mould found that the Home Secretary had made “a most serious and inexplicable omission” in failing to assess the impact on disabled asylum seekers and those with serious mental health issues when changing the asylum accommodation policy.