Britain must wake up Follow rigorous reporting on the threats to our democracy Enjoy a full year’s access to The Telegraph for £29. | | Anti-migrant protesters in Epping yesterday |  | Charles Hymas Home Affairs Editor | Sir Keir Starmer’s policy for housing asylum seekers has been plunged into turmoil by a High Court ruling that a migrant hotel in Epping, Essex, should be closed.
Council leaders took legal action to shut the Bell Hotel after it became the focus of anti-immigration protests following the arrest and charging of an asylum seeker for sexual assault.
On Tuesday, a High Court judge granted a temporary injunction requiring all asylum seekers to leave the property by Sept 12.
The ruling raises serious questions over the future of the remaining 200-plus hotels at which more than 30,000 asylum seekers are currently being housed. | Police outside the Bell Hotel in Epping | In an article for The Telegraph, Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, signalled that the 12 councils controlled by his party would mount similar legal challenges, and urged people to stage protests at asylum hotels to persuade their local authorities to take similar action.
The policy of housing migrants in hotels was introduced by the Tories, reaching a peak of 400 hotels accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers. That fell back to around 200 by the time of the last election, where it has stubbornly stuck amid a surge in Channel migrant crossings.
Labour has pledged to halt the use of asylum hotels by the end of the Parliament in 2029, but the public and councils appear to be losing patience.
With the UK plagued by housing shortages, Labour will be under pressure to accelerate its plans to work with local councils to buy, lease or rent houses and vacant properties in which to house asylum seekers – or see its political opponents continue to capitalise on the crisis.
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Here are two more helpful articles for you this morning: | | Elizabeth Hopkinson plans to invest £400 a month for about 10 years to save for a house deposit | Navigating the ever-changing tax landscape is difficult enough in one country, but trying to balance the requirements of two can seem impossible.
The US is well known for chasing its citizens who have moved abroad to pay taxes on their earnings, but perhaps less famous for demanding a share of their investment returns. Even an Isa won’t protect you from the reach of Washington, which does not acknowledge the tax-free status of the product.
This is the challenge for Elizabeth Hopkinson, 25, who is trying to invest her way to a house deposit.
“I spent some time during uni trying to become more financially literate and learning about different options for saving and wealth building in the US. But things are a bit different in the UK – it feels like I’m starting from scratch,” she says.
A dual citizen with a British father, Elizabeth was raised in a town outside Boston, Massachusetts, before coming to the UK in 2023 to study.
At the moment she is happy renting, but eventually wants a place of her own. She plans to invest £400 a month for about 10 years in the hope of saving enough for a house deposit either in the US or the UK.
As she stares down the barrel of complex and often conflicting tax requirements, we have drafted in two financial experts to give her advice on how to negotiate these challenges. Read the advice in full here ➤ | Pigeon fanciers Every weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal Reader Correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes...
Pigeons have been losing the PR battle for a while now. Personally, I’ve always had a soft spot for these birds, but the truth is that it will take a sustained and persuasive campaign to counter the dominant narrative, which has demoted them from exotic “rock doves” to “rats with wings”.
I’d suggest that Pigeon PLC could do worse than enlist the services of Telegraph readers. Last week we published a photo of racing pigeons in full flight over the Scottish Borders, and there have been some lovely responses, reminding us how clever and tenacious these creatures can be.
“My dear old dad,” wrote Brian Soutar, “used to breed and race pigeons from his loft in Invergowrie, just outside Dundee. The three longest races of the season were from Christchurch in Dorset, and Nantes and Rennes in Brittany in France – all the way back to Invergowrie.”
Gill Bull added: “My dad played in the Paulton Silver Band, based in Somerset. In 1961, the band took part in a national competition and, having qualified for the finals, they went to London. They took a racing pigeon with them and, at the end of the competition, tied the result to the bird, which then flew back to Somerset to let the waiting supporters know of the band’s success.”
Meanwhile, Sarah Purssell recalled: “As a child in the 1950s, I travelled home from school by train, alighting at Malvern Wells. The station master there would unload two or three crates of racing pigeons from the train. I always waited until he waved the train off because, joy of joys, he then let me help him release these lovely, smart birds. Out they flew, up into the sky, moving as one in a slow circle, before they headed North together.” Now, I appreciate that racing pigeons are a different proposition from the feral kind, but I still think the species as a whole has been unjustly maligned. Do you agree? Let me know here, or head to our Your Say page, exclusively on the Telegraph app. | Plan your day with the telegraph | Set your alarm to catch up with journalists on the Your Say page and listen to their analysis on our latest podcasts.
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