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MP's warning after asylum protests

Protests at an Essex hotel housing asylum seekers is a ‘crisis that risks boiling over’, an MP has warned after a series of violent protests.

By Dan Peters | 31 July 2025

Epping Forest DC councillors voted unanimously to call on the Government to ‘immediately and permanently’ close the asylum hotel

Protests at an Essex hotel housing asylum seekers is a ‘crisis that risks boiling over', an MP has warned after a series of violent protests.

Conservative MP for Epping Forest, Neil Hudson, has signed a letter urging home secretary Yvette Cooper to make The Bell Hotel a priority for ‘urgent closure'.

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