The 350 residents of Piddington in Oxfordshire have staged a symbolic referendum to leave the UK over Home Office plans to house 1,250 asylum seekers at nearby Bicester barracks.

It follows reports of a migrant camp being set up near Piddington, a village in Oxfordshire, which locals fear would overwhelm the hamlet

Andy Burnham has said that wealthy areas of Britain must ‘play their part’ in housing asylum seekers