Labour Braces For A Tense Weekend As Anti-Immigration Protesters Plan To Demonstrate Outside Asylum Hotels

Police officers block a road during a demonstration near the Bell Hotel on July 20, 2025 in Epping, England.Up to 30 protests are expected to take place across the country over the weekend outside hotels thought to be housing asylum seekers.It comes after the High Court ruled migrants must be removed from a hotel in Epping this week in a major blow to the government.Councils across the UK controlled by Labour, the Conservatives and Reform UK, are now looking into pursuing their own legal challenges against the hotels in their area.The judgement followed weeks of protests outside the Bell Hotel which was housing an asylum seeker who was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old.The success of this demonstration has evidently inspired similar responses, although clashes between anti-migrant protesters and counter-demonstrations are also expected.Labour promised to tackle this issue, having previously pledged to end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers by the end of this parliament in 2029.But new data on Thursday revealed Labour has overseen an 8% rise in the number of asylum seekers housed in hotels, taking the overall tally to more than 32,000.That is still below the 2023 peak seen under the Tories, although the opposition have repeatedly overlooked that fact.Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said in a letter to Conservative councils this week that her party will “back you to take similar action to protect your community”.The Conservatives’ shadow home secretary Chris Philp said the public have “every right” to protest over asylum hotels in their areas.Home secretary Yvette Cooper has repeatedly said Labour is taking “crucial steps” towards meeting this goal and investing in the asylum system, while also returning asylum seekers whose application has failed.But, according to the i newspaper, even some Labour MPs are calling on the government to go “further and faster” on tackling this issue.Related...Exclusive: Keir Starmer To Launch Autumn Fightback Against Farage's Claim 'Britain Is Broken'New Asylum Numbers Show Labour Face Nightmare Trying To Achieve Key Election PledgeBBC Presenter Skewers Chris Philp As He Brutally Exposes Tory Asylum Hotel Hypocrisy

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