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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Callum Parke

UNCOVERED: Ministers face backlash after epping asylum hotel injunction overturned | History Defined

The Government has been criticised for “putting the rights of illegal immigrants above the rights of British people” after it won a court challenge which means asylum seekers can continue to be housed at an Essex hotel.

Somani Hotels, which owns the Bell Hotel in Epping, and the Home Office challenged a High Court ruling which would have stopped 138 asylum seekers being housed there beyond September 12.

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