Ted Newson: The Epping migrant hotel ruling is a dark day for local democracy

Ted Newson: The Epping migrant hotel ruling is a dark day for local democracy

Ted Newson is a politics graduate and a political commentator for Young Voices. The British government and British people could not be more out of step right now. While the government claims to want to close migrant hotels and “smash the gangs”, they seem incapable of doing either. This coincides with public concerns about mass immigration ranking as the most important issue in recent YouGov polling. As Keir Starmer and his government double dow…