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Epping hotel asylum case: what has the court of appeal decided and why?

Temporary injunction has been set aside but council’s challenge will still proceed to a trial

The Guardian - UK

UK government wins appeal over ruling that would have blocked migrants staying in Epping hotel

The government was particularly worried that the High Court decision could have been a catalyst for other similar decisions around the country, which would have thrown its policies for housing asylum-seekers into disarray.

Euronews

Ministers face backlash after Epping asylum hotel injunction overturned

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said that Sir Keir Starmer ‘puts the rights of illegal immigrants above the rights of British people’.

Evening Standard

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Voices: When it comes to Reform, Labour and the Tories are making the same mistake

COMMENT: In directing their fire at Nigel Farage, Reform’s opponents risk building him up, helping him seize the agenda – and further exposing their own limitations and failures over immigration, says Andrew Grice

The Independent UK

Post-Brexit licences for exporting food to EU cost UK firms up to £65m last year

Government to promise it will scrap existing scheme by reaching new deal with Brussels in next 18 months

The Guardian - UK

Farage ‘copying our homework’ with immigration plans, Badenoch says

At a press conference on Tuesday, Reform UK pledged to scale up detention capacity for asylum seekers and increase deportations.

The Independent UK

Commuters playing loud music to face ‘swift justice’ under Tories’ proposal

The shadow transport secretary said passengers should not have to ‘endure somebody else’s choice of crap music’

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Kemi Badenoch reveals ‘hysterical’ level of personal attacks faced as a black woman

Tory leader tells Sunday Times she is surprised at amount of racism she has experienced since taking up post

The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch hits out at 'hysterical' attacks from racist trolls

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch hits out at personal attacks from critics using racist tropes

Evening Standard

Badenoch calls Jenrick supporters hoping to oust her ‘sore losers’

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch also hit out at personal attacks from critics using racist tropes.

The Independent UK

Kemi Badenoch: It is shameful of councils to remove St George’s Cross flags

The Conservative leader said the flying of English flags should be ‘welcomed’, rather than ‘seen as an act of rebellion’.

Evening Standard

Lucy Connolly to speak out for first time since ending 10-month jail term for hate tweet

The wife of a Conservative councillor is understood to be doing limited media interviews a day after walking free from jail

Evening Standard

Lucy Connolly to speak out for first time since being released from prison

The former childminder, from Northampton, left HMP Peterborough on Thursday morning.

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on Conservative asylum policy: the moderate Tory tradition faces extinction

Editorial: Kemi Badenoch is presiding over the collapse of a party that was once a broad church into a narrow hardline sect

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The Independent UK

‘Hypocritical’ Badenoch calls for Tory councils to launch legal challenges against asylum hotels

Tory leader encourages local authorities to ‘take the same steps’ as Epping council

The Independent UK

Chris Philp challenged on why he didn’t encourage councils to take legal action over asylum hotels when Tories were in power

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has defended Kemi Badenoch’s call for Conservative councils to consider legal challenges against the use of hotels to house asylum seekers.

Evening Standard

People have ‘every right’ to protest asylum hotels – shadow home secretary

Conservative-led councils in Hertfordshire, Surrey and London are considering taking legal action against hoteliers, he said.

The Guardian - UK

Action to tackle number of asylum seekers coming to UK is important step to ‘restoring order’, says Cooper – as it happened

Home secretary responds to statistics showing rise in number of people housed in hotels in UK, saying Labour has overseen increased numbers of returns of asylum seekers

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The National (Scotland)

Kemi Badenoch tells Tory councils to challenge asylum hotels in 'pathetic stunt'

Kemi Badenoch has called for more Conservative councils to launch legal challenges over asylum hotels as the Government faces a potential revolt…

The Independent UK

Badenoch urges Tory councils to challenge asylum hotels in court

Epping secured a temporary injunction blocking the use of the Essex town’s Bell Hotel as accommodation for asylum seekers on planning grounds.

Evening Standard

Labour councils now want to shut down migrant hotels in wake of Epping injunction

Tamworth and Wirral councils, both controlled by Labour, have joined a number of Conservative and Reform UK-run councils in investigating whether they can mount legal challenges

The Independent UK

Voices: Politicians making mischief over asylum hotels are in for an unwelcome surprise

COMMENT: Conservatives are revelling in the government’s turmoil following a court ruling to close a migrant hotel in Essex – but their double standards on the issue will come back and bite them, says Andrew Grice

The National (Scotland)

Nigel Farage claims court ruling removing asylum seekers from hotel as 'victory'

NIGEL Farage has claimed a court decision allowing an English council to remove asylum seekers from a hotel as a “victory”.

Evening Standard

‘A victory for mums and dads’ as asylum seekers to be removed from Essex hotel

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch hits out at Labour for ‘putting young male illegal immigrants’ in towns

The Guardian - UK

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