EPPING, United Kingdom: Britain´s government was considering on Wednesday whether to appeal a court ruling blocking the housing of asylum seekers in a flashpoint hotel, as it scrambled to come up with contingency plans for the migrants.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer´s Labour administration braced itself for further legal challenges from local authorities following Tuesday´s judge-issued junction that has dealt it a major political and logistical headache.
Anti-immigrant firebrand Nigel Farage indicated that councils run by his hard-right Reform UK party, leading in national polls, would pursue similar claims as he called for protests outside migrant hotels. Security minister Dan Jarvis said the government was weighing challenging high court judge Stephen Eyre´s granting of a temporary injunction to stop migrants from staying at the Bell Hotel in Epping, northeast of London.
The local authority sought the ruling following several weeks of protests outside the hotel, some of which have turned violent. The demonstrations erupted after a resident was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.
