Cabins aren’t much bigger than prison cells on this barge being rented by the British government to house asylum seekers

• The UK is set to start housing hundreds of asylum seekers in a barge moored on Dorset coast.
• The barge looks eerily like a floating prison, with bleak, narrow corridors and cramped rooms.
• Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said it offered “basic and appropriate standards.”

This is the Bibby Stockholm, a bleak floating accommodation block that the British government is renting to house hundreds of asylum seekers.

The 222-cabin barge is moored on the southern coast of England and will soon hold an estimated 500 men while their applications to remain in the UK are processed.