Dear oh dear. As Steerpike wrote on Tuesday afternoon, asylum seekers will be removed from the Bell Hotel in Essex after Epping Forest district council was granted a temporary injunction by the High Court. The legal action comes after a series of protestors gathered outside the venue after a resident was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl – and the move sets a significant precedent that could pose problems for the government. On the airwaves to talk about it all this morning was Labour’s security minister, Dan Jarvis. But rather than providing clarity, the MP’s disastrous interview only threw up more questions…

Quizzed on Radio 4’s Today programme by Emma Barnett about where migrants........

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