The government will be breathing a sigh of relief this afternoon.

The Court of Appeal has ruled in its favour by overturning the High Court’s temporary injunction on Epping’s Bell Hotel which was meant to stop accommodating asylum seekers.

After weeks of local protesters – reportedly orchestrated in part by the far-right – calling for the immigrants to be turfed out amid fears of a spike in crime, Epping Forest District Council took sudden legal action.

They claimed that using the building for this purpose was against planning laws.

The High Court backed the local authority and declared all asylum seekers would have to be removed from the hotel by September 12.

But Labour – and the Bell Hotel’s owners, Somani Hotels – argued that kicking out the asylum seekers without a plan wen

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