Epping Forest Council won a High Court injunction requiring the Home Office to re-home asylum seekers currently at the Bell Hotel by 12 September 2025. The court decision may prompt other councils to mount legal challenges to hotel use for asylum accommodation. There is a possibility that the government could relocate migrants into residential flats and Houses of Multiple Occupancy, scattering them across communities and complicating policing of demonstrations. Dozens of councils are reportedly instructing legal teams to pursue advice on removing migrants from hotels. Calls are being made for immediate deportation of illegal arrivals to countries of origin or safe third countries.
I have been picking up that the Labour Government's plan to try and reduce hotel use is simply to move people out of hotels and into flats and HMOs (Houses of Multiple Occupancy) which, of course, would ordinarily be used by young people who are long-term UK residents. So I'm going to be monitoring this very carefully, monitoring the data to see if that is the trick the Labour Government has up its sleeve.
But look, the real solution to this problem is to stop illegal immigrants coming here in the first place. It's to deport them immediately upon arrival either back to their country of origin or some other safe third country. "If we can't remove them to their country of origin, they shouldn't be in hotels or flats in the first place. They shouldn't be here at all in the first place.
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