Yvette Cooper has quietly agreed to close a second asylum hotel at the centre of anti-immigration protests after being threatened with further Epping-style legal action.
Protesters gathered outside the Park Hotel in Diss last month after the Home Office said it would remove migrant families and replace them with lone male asylum seekers.
South Norfolk Council opposed the change and threatened to use planning laws to block it - but the Home Office committed to pressing on with the plan just two weeks ago.
But now the Home Secretary has climbed down following the legal threat and the Home Office has confirmed that it will no longer use the Norfolk hotel to house asylum seekers.
The Mail understands the hotel is due to close at the end of August and that officials have already begun moving migrants out.
