It follows a High Court ruling last Wednesday on asylum seekers in an Essex hotel, in which a district council obtained a temporary injunction to stop the hotel being used to house asylum seekers.

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ministers are under mounting pressure to close an asylum hotel on one of the UK’s best-known seafronts, after a ...

Blackpool Council has been urged to take decisive action to try and end the use of the Metropole Hotel to house migrants – instead of ‘downplaying’ the issue. Cllr Paul Galley says the Labour-run ...