Labour's legal bid over migrant hotel is slap in the face for people of Epping

By doing so the Government has shown it does not have the best interests of the British public at heart and is a slap in the face of the people of Epping who have protested against the hotel since July.

Despite being slandered as "far-right" by the establishment and attacked by left-wing thugs, this community stood up bravely and won what now seems to be the first round of what could end up being a long and costly legal battle.

The people in Epping represent the vast majority of people in this country who believe that placing tens of thousands of undocumented and unvetted migrants in hotels presents a tremendous risk to local communities.

They also believe that these hotels, housing approximately 32,000 illegal migrants as privileged guests at taxpayers' expense, should be shut down. However, closing the hotels is just a problem moved, not a problem solved.

What the Government should be doing is to follow Reform's plan: leave the ECHR, and detain and deport anyone who is here illegally. If we do that, illegal migrants will stop coming and with that our hotels will empty and we can get back to some sort of peace and normality.

But by lodging this legal challenge we know for certain that this Labour Government will always put the interests of illegal migrants over those of the decent-minded British public.

Lee Anderson is the Reform UK MP for Ashfield