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.

Chris Webb said the Metropole was only supposed to be used as accommodation for asylum seekers for a few months Blackpool South MP Chris Webb has called for an end to using the Metropole Hotel to ...

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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 ...

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 ...