More than a dozen councils have vowed to fight to shut down controversial asylum hotels following accusations the Labour government is taking the side of migrants over Britons.
In a victory for the Home Office, the Court of Appeal yesterday overturned an injunction ordering the removal of 138 migrants from the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex.
The government had argued that the need to protect the human rights of asylum seekers by housing them in hotels, outweighed the safety concerns of local families.
However, MPs and the local council reacted furiously to the decision, with Reform leader Nigel Farage saying illegal migrants now had more rights than Britons under Sir Keir Starmer.
Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch also accused the prime minister of 'putting the rights of illegal immigrants above the rights of British people'.
