Epping tips back into unrest after migrant hotel ruling

England’s migrant hotel protests gained new ferocity as Sunday’s demonstration in Epping resulted in clashes with police. The confrontation came after the Court of Appeal overturned an injunction which would have temporarily stopped the housing of asylum seekers in the Essex town’s Bell Hotel. Those protesting are increasingly seeking not only to close the migrant hotel, but to overturn a political system which appears deaf to their concerns. As anger grows, the Labour government is doing all it can do avoid a repeat of last summer’s widespread civil unrest.