Epping Forest Council Leader: Close Migrant Hotel It’s a Powder Keg

Epping Forest District Council leader Chris Whitbread spoke to BBC Newsnight last night in the area about the ongoing protests, telling Victoria Derbyshire it is a “powder keg.” Whitbread said the hotel must be closed:

“I understand families who are deeply upset by what’s happened and I really get it, but I understood it before and that’s why from day one Epping Forest District Council had a position of this was the wrong location for this hotel and it’s a powder keg now and we need to get something done and we need the Home Office to listen.”