No10 slams violent 'thugs' after six arrested during latest migrant hotel demonstration - Missiles were thrown at an elderly woman counter-protesting who had to be escorted away by police

Sir Keir Starmer does not support the “clearly unacceptable” violence directed towards police outside a migrant hotel in Epping, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman has said. The intervention from No10 comes just hours after six people were arrested in the second wave of protests outside the asylum hotel in leafy Essex yesterday.

A town on the outskirts of London was rocked by protesters who descended on a hotel housing asylum seekers for the second time in four days on Sunday night amid anger about a migrant accused of sexual assault.