00:00Well, this is about supporting local councils like Epping, a Conservative-led council who were standing up for their local community.
00:07They won their legal challenge against the Labour government, and we're supporting other Conservative councils who want to do the same.
00:14In the last nine months of the previous government, we managed to get hotels down by about 200.
00:21We closed 200 hotels. Had that trend continued after the election, there wouldn't be any hotels at all now.
00:28But unfortunately, the Labour government did not continue that trend.
00:32And in fact, the number of asylum seekers, many of whom entered the country illegally in hotels, actually went up in the first nine months of the Labour government.
