Epping Forest District Council has been granted a temporary High Court injunction blocking asylum seekers from being housed at the Bell Hotel in Epping in Essex.

Conservative response to Bell Hotel Epping injunction decision.

Chris Philp, Croydon South MP and Shadow Home Secretary, said:

“This ruling is a moment of relief for the people of Epping. Residents should never have had to fight their own government just to feel safe in their own town.

“Local residents have every right to feel safe in their own streets and every right to object when their community is treated as a dumping ground.

“This whole episode is the direct result of Labour’s decision to throw open Britain’s borders and tear up the deterrents the Conservatives put in place. The Conservatives will remove all illegal arrivals immediately and put a proper deterrent in place so that towns like Epping are never put in this position again.”