Protesters hold the Union Jack and St George's flags outside the Bell Hotel, Essex, on Friday as the British government has overturned a court ruling requiring asylum seekers to be temporarily evicted from the hotel in Epping, Britain.

A British appeal court has overturned a temporary injunction that stopped the government from using hotels to house asylum seekers, but the legal and political battle over the policy is far from over.

The Home Office has become increasingly reliant on around 200 hotels across the country to accommodate the growing number of asylum seekers. More than 111,000 people claimed asylum in Britain in the year ending June, 2025, up 14 per cent from the previous year, and the number of those housed in hotels has topped 32,000.

The hotels became a hot-button polit

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