In Linton-on-Ouse, men in hi-vis jackets are already at work behind the wire-mesh security fence of the Home Office ’s latest “migrant camp”.
After high-profile failures at Napier Barracks in Kent and Penally Barracks in Pembrokeshire, Home Secretary Priti Patel intends to use a mothballed RAF base in rural North Yorkshire to create the UK’s biggest-ever camp for people seeking sanctuary.
Plans to double the local population by housing around 1,500 asylum seekers in a “Greek-style reception centre” in the village have been branded “Guantanamo-on-Ouse”.
