Yvette Cooper will face MPs today as the government desperately tries to keep a lid on fury about Channel boats and asylum hotels.
The Home Secretary is set to make a statement as the Commons returns from a torrid summer dominated by protests over immigration.
Her Cabinet colleague Bridget Phillipson fuelled anger yesterday by defending deploying government lawyers to keep open an asylum hotel in Epping, saying the rights of arrivals trumped those of local residents.
Despite overseeing record numbers of crossings from France this year, Ms Cooper will claim this afternoon that Labour's plans are already working.
She will pledged to press ahead with a shake-up of the asylum appeals process, which currently takes an average of a year.
