It’s the issue that has dominated the week: hotels housing asylum seekers. On Tuesday, the High Court granted a temporary injunction to Epping Forest district council, meaning that the asylum seekers living in Essex’s Bell Hotel will have to be removed within 24 days. The landmark ruling has prompted councils across the country to consider taking similar legal action – but now it transpires that the Home Office is seeking to intervene in the decision. Good heavens…

The action will not seek to appeal the entire judgment but, security minister Dan Jarvis told broadcasters on Friday, the government is seeking to challenge the High Court’s decision on the Bell Hotel, so that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is allowed to intervene. He added:

The government will close all asylum hotels and we will clear up the mess that we inherited from the previous government. We’ve made a........

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