Key moments

A government minister has warned that asylum seekers could be left homeless on the streets if the government is forced to close asylum hotels at speed

Epping Forest district council was granted a temporary injunction that blocked the housing of asylum seekers at a local hotel from September 12. The government plans to appeal

Housing minister, Matthew Pennycook, suggested that if this ruling set a precedent across the country, “the very worst scenario” would be a “haphazard ejection of asylum seekers” from hotels

More than 100 asylum seekers have been detained for deportation to France as part of the one-in, one-out deal