WATCH: Attacks Mount on Labour Over Mishandling of Epping Asylum Hotel

In an urgent question debate in the Lords Labour has been attacked on multiple fronts for the events unfolding in Epping. The Commons has risen for recess, the Lords is still going until tomorrow…

While Home Office minister Lord Hanson complained about “misinformation being spread deliberately to to encourage disorder” Eleanor Laing – formerly MP for Epping Forest for 27 years – pointed out that Labour reopened the Bell Hotel in the area after it was closed for asylum seeker use:

“It has long been recognised that the Bell Hotel is not a good place for asylum seekers to be housed.