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The government was acquiring two barges to house 1,000 migrants in addition to one at Portland for 500. Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, said that small-boat crossings of the Channel were down 20 per cent, and ‘our plan is starting to work’. A group of asylum-seekers, transferred to a Comfort Inn in Pimlico and told they would have to share four to a room, refused to enter and stayed on the pavement. The scandal-hit CBI said that 93 per cent of the 371 members who voted backed its plans to reform; the British Chambers of Commerce launched a rival group called the Business Council.
The Duke of Sussex popped over to London to give evidence in the High Court about his claims of phone-hacking by Mirror Group Newspapers’ journalists listening to voicemails; the judge, Mr Justice Fancourt, said he was ‘a little surprised’ that the Duke was not in court on the trial’s first day.
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