"It's an invasion," Dinah Bentley tells me, standing next to a cardboard cut-out of Nigel Farage.

The 78-year-old retired teacher says she "doesn't laud" the Reform MP, whose grinning likeness is a permanent fixture in her West Yorkshire conservatory, but he "says what I believe".

"Everybody talks about migration, but our country's ruined," Dinah adds. "They've ruined it."

The "they" in her mind? People who have crossed into the UK on small boats.

We have seen asylum hotel protests intensify over the summer and wanted to speak to the people who've joined them.

Over the coming weeks, we'll speak with counter-protesters too, but today, we meet Dinah, a grandmother of two who has joined those calling on asylum hotels to close.

Image: Dinah says she fears for her granddaughters' safety

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