Protests against migrant hotels escalated this weekend with tense stand–offs in Norwich, Portsmouth, Bournemouth and Leeds.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside The Best Western Brook Hotel in Bowthorpe, Norwich, on Saturday chanting 'we want our country back' and 'Keir Starmer's a w*****'.
Police officers separated the main group from a set of counter protesters, some of whom were waving Revolutionary Communist Party flags.
Three masked anti–racism activists tried to force their way in at one point, causing angry scuffles.
The hotel – one of two Norwich sites used by the Home Office to house migrants – has been the focus of fury since April when a 'predatory' asylum seeker staying there was jailed for more than eight years for raping a woman.
