Marquees have been bought for 2,000 migrants under Suella

 desperate Suella Braverman got here underneath hearth after ordering home workplace officers to shop for large tents to residence up to 2,000 asylum seekers on disused army sites.

the home Secretary's plan to % humans into marquees by means of next month to deal with a surge in small boat crossings has been branded "merciless".

Labour accused the authorities of "floundering", even as a human rights organization stated it highlighted a "deeply racist method" to protective refugees.

Ministers reportedly taken into consideration the circulate while Boris Johnson was PM, but rejected it amid warnings it would cause prison demanding situations.

Tim Naor Hilton, leader executive of Refugee action, said: “The winners from this cruel plan could be the home workplace’s asylum housing contractors, who trouser tens of tens of millions of pounds in taxpayer-subsidised profits as standards maintain to plummet.

“that is but another manner the authorities has advanced to demonise humans searching for asylum, that's rooted in its deeply racist technique to refugee protection.

“It genuinely shouldn’t be an excessive amount of to ask that human beings who have fled violence, torture and persecution have their claims assessed speedy and justly and are housed in secure homes in our groups.”

And Labour's Shadow home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, stated failure to clean a immense asylum backlog - with 138,000 humans anticipating a primary selection in March - was in charge.

She stated: "we've got visible them certainly flailing round with the barges, the bases, the tents now, and in fact all that is alongside growing inn use after they must be ending resort use, because they may be clearly no longer taking asylum choices."

And the Labour frontbencher continued: "We want grip, now not gimmicks."

Natasha Tsangarides, accomplice Director of Advocacy at Freedom from Torture, said: “It’s utterly contemptible that this government’s latest plan is to house people fleeing conflict and torture in tents and marquees.

“in preference to losing time dreaming up cruel and unworkable lodging schemes – like barges and abandoned army web sites – this authorities desires to urgently get a grip and address the asylum backlog head on."

regardless of concerns over protection the house workplace is also anticipated to ship an initial 50 humans to a giant barge in Portland, Dorset, next week.

The floating facility - Bibby Stockholm - will host round 500 men at a time beneath authorities efforts to reduce using accommodations to house humans expecting the effects of asylum claims.

Refugee charities have previously stated the usage of barges and previous army bases to house asylum seekers is detrimental to the needs of vulnerable humans, and additionally raised concerns for migrants' safety.

a central authority spokeswoman stated: “We have been clear that the use of resorts to house asylum seekers is unacceptable – there are currently greater than fifty one,000 asylum seekers in hotels costing the United Kingdom taxpayer £6 million a day.

“We preserve to work throughout government and with nearby government to have a look at more than a few lodging alternatives.

“lodging supplied to asylum seekers, on a no desire basis, meets our felony and contractual necessities.”