00:00Government lawyers disgracefully saying that the rights of illegal immigrants were more important than the rights of local people in Epping and a cabinet minister, Bridget Philipson, yesterday doubled down on that. It is disgraceful to say that.
00:14It is disgraceful. Who was the minister who opened the Bell Hotel to asylum seekers without consulting the community? Do you by any chance remember?
00:22Well, the last government did open that hotel, but they also...
00:25Not the last government, it was you!
00:26They also...
00:26You were the immigration minister, you did it!
00:28We also... Let me finish, Nick. We also closed it down as quickly as possible. And we also, in the last nine months in government, closed down 200 asylum hotels. And had that rate of closure continued after the election, by now there would be no asylum hotels at all.
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