Protests at a hotel in Essex housing asylum seekers "is a crisis that risks boiling over", the local MP has said as pressure builds on the home secretary to close it down.

Essex Police said 14 people have been charged in connection with protests at the site and there have been 23 arrests.

The Home Secretary has said she wants to ensure the ‘system is able to respond to violent fixated individuals’.

Ahead of the home secretary's announcement, hundreds of protesters met at Trafalgar Square after police banned Palestine Action from protesting outside of Parliament.

Yvette Cooper said she would address a ‘gap in the law’ against planning mass casualty attacks that had no ideological basis.

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The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has been branded “weak” as the government has blamed the weather for the record braking Channel crossings.

The murdered MP’s family spokesman said Yvette Cooper’s ‘piecemeal approach… will never deliver the whole truth, accountability and justice’.