Tories say they're leading on asylum hotel crackdown

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Shadow Transport Secretary Richard Holden has praised Conservative-led councils like Epping for taking legal action to stop hotels being used to house asylum seekers, amid failures from the government to address the issue.   Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00It's been Conservative councils taking action on this. Epping was a Conservative local authority

00:05which has actually been the first to really show some leadership in this space and ensure

00:09they've been banned. Other Conservative authorities are now taking note. I think what we really need

00:15is proper action here which is what the Conservatives have delivered locally and actually nationally

00:19when we said we should be removing human rights legislation when it comes to immigration law as

00:25well. I think it's only by taking some bold action that we're going to see this issue tackled.

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