Charlie Stayt and Chris Philp on BBC Breakfast.

BBC presenter Charlie Stayt skewered a top Tory over his party’s hypocrisy over asylum seekers being put up in hotels.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is encouraging local councils to take legal action against the Labour government to block the hotels in their areas.

It comes after Epping Forest District Council won a landmark legal battle to prevent the local Bell Hotel from being used by the Home Office to house asylum seekers.

Other councils, including two which are run by Labour, are now considering doing the same.

In a letter to Tory councils, Badenoch said she would “back you to take similar action to protect your community”.

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