Labour minister insists rights of asylum seekers are more important

Labour minister insists rights of asylum seekers are more important. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said the Home Office was right to argue the rights of asylum seekers trumped those of local residents in Epping. She said the axing of the The Bell Hotel - which has been plagued by weeks of unrest after an asylum seeker living there allegedly sexually assaulted two young girls - would have triggered 'lots of disruption' and left people 'on the streets'.