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Rishi Sunak has vowed to secure as many barges 'as it takes' to house migrants as he tried to face down a revolt from the Right of the Tory Party.
In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, the Prime Minister dismissed criticisms of his immigration policy by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who said that the plan to send asylum seekers on to Rwanda was 'morally unacceptable'.
He also pledged to hold twice-weekly cross-governmental meetings to tackle the crisis, modelled on the way No 10 dealt with the Covid pandemic.
The Archbishop made his critical remarks during scrutiny of the new laws by the House of Lords – but Mr Sunak said that he would not wait for the Illegal Migration Bill to clear Parliament before taking action.
He said: 'I respectfully disagree with the Archbishop on this and I've spoken about it a lot. The number of illegal crossings last year was 45,000. That number has gone up four or five times in just a couple of years and it can't carry on like this.'
A giant barge, the Bibby Stockholm, which is designed to hold 500 migrants, arrived in Falmouth, Cornwall, last week (pictured)
A giant barge, the Bibby Stockholm, which is designed to hold 500 migrants, arrived in Falmouth, Cornwall, last week.
