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Mayor ‘shares his home with refugee’
George Ferguson is rumoured to have come good on his promise to take a refugee into his own home.
The mayor made the pledge in an interview on live radio in September and later to the television cameras in the light of the escalating migrant and refugee crisis.
He told Bristol24/7 the offer was “still open” in October. Now the mayor is believed to have opened his Tobacco Factory flat to a new houseguest, the BBC reports.
Ferguson is yet to comment on the details.
In September he said he wanted to “lead by example” with his offer to house a refugee – something he had done before in the 1970s.
The mayor, 68, lives on the top floor of the Tobacco Factory on North Street, Southville.
Bristol aims to take 550 of the 20,000 refugees the UK plans to house under the Government’s resettlement programme.