Protesters clashed with police outside the hotel in Essex last week, after a man living there was charged with sexual assault.

This Essex commuter town has seen a series of protests around the Bell Hotel where asylum seekers have been housed for the past few years.

E ssex Police have denied claims officers “bussed” counter-demonstrators to a protest outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Epping last week. The claims have promoted a call from Reform UK leader and Clacton MP Nigel Farage for the force’s chief constable to resign.