Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer faced mounting pressure over the housing of illegal immigrants last night after 700 people were involved in angry clashes outside a migrant hotel in a Scots town.
Police had to call in reinforcements as local residents and anti-racism groups clashed in angry scenes that saw bottles and other objects thrown outside the hotel in Falkirk which can hold more than 50 asylum seekers.
Community tensions had reached fever pitch after Afghan asylum seeker Sadeq Nikzad, 29, – a former resident in the hotel – was jailed in June for raping a local 15-year-old schoolgirl.
Yesterday, one of Sir Keir's own Labour MPs said he believed that migrants should be removed from Falkirk’s Cladhan Hotel.
Euan Stainbank, the MP for Falkirk, said: ‘These hotels don’t work for host communities or those who stay there and their use will be ended by this government.’
