The police force facing scrutiny over its handling of protests outside a migrant hotel is set to hold a press conference. Senior figures from Essex Police are expected to answer questions about the decisions they have taken after days of volatile demonstrations.

Epping Forest District Council leader Chris Whitbread described the Essex town as a ‘powder keg’ after violent demonstrations outside the Bell Hotel on Sunday

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The Labour leader said it was vital Britain’s ‘social fabric’ was healed amid a series of protests outside taxpayer-funded hotels housing asylum seekers

One Metropolitan police van sped through an improvised blockade on Epping High Street ‘making contact’ with a protester who appeared to fail to move out of the way. Staff at the hotel told Metro on Thursday that the car park was a no-go zone after the riot as they feared the protesters would return in force.

The large group of protesters gathered outside a hotel in Canary Wharf, London, were swarmed by cops and police vans amid claims on social media that asylum seekers are being housed there. The Daily Express understands that no asylum seekers are being housed in the hotel and there are no plans to do so.

COPS have arrested six more after “mindless thuggery” unfolded outside a migrant hotel in Epping. Chaos erupted outside The Bell Hotel in Essex last week after an asylum seeker