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UK says it will reform asylum appeal process to clear backlog as anti-migrant protests outside hotels continue

Release Date: 2025-08-25
Media: CNN
Summary: Anti-immigration protests continued across Britain outside hotels housing asylum seekers, with tensions heightened after a sexual assault case involving a migrant in Essex. In Epping, a court ordered asylum seekers removed from a hotel at the center of repeated demonstrations, though the government plans to appeal.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government, under pressure to end the costly use of hotels, announced reforms to speed up asylum appeals and cut a backlog of more than 100,000 cases. Interior Minister Yvette Cooper said an independent adjudication body would be created to restore order to a “chaotic” system.

Meanwhile, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has surged in polls, vowing mass deportations, withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights, and new detention facilities if his party gains power.
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