Dan Peters 20 August 2025

Farage: Put pressure on councils to follow Epping Forest

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage © Martin Suker / Shutterstock.com.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has urged people to 'put pressure' on councils to go to court after a High Court ruling.

The court ruled asylum seekers could no longer be housed at the Bell Hotel in Epping, which has became the focus of protests this summer, after Epping Forest DC was granted a temporary injunction blocking asylum seekers from being housed there.

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