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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Tom Watling and Archie Mitchell

Labour faces migrant hotel chaos as more councils consider launching legal action to ban asylum seekers

Sir Keir Starmer faces a slew of legal challenges over the government’s use of asylum hotels after a council was granted a temporary injunction blocking migrants from being housed there.

Epping Forest District Council won an interim High Court injunction to stop asylum seekers being housed at The Bell Hotel, arguing it had become a “feeding ground for unrest” in recent weeks after a series of violent protests resulted in multiple arrests and saw police officers injured.

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