The Home Office is appealing the High Court’s injunction preventing migrants from being housed at the Bell Hotel. Dan Jarvis told broadcasters the government remains committed to closing all asylum hotels, but wants it to be done in a “managed and ordered way, and that’s why we will appeal this decision.“ Scrap inbound…
In Henry Mance’s piece today for the FT, lunching with Nigel Farage:
“Splendido!” Farage says, when the drinks arrive; I suppose it’s a step to European reconciliation. We clink glasses, and he lights the first of two back-to-back Benson & Hedges. A few minutes later, we’re back downstairs. “Are you drinking? Good.” He orders a glass of Sauvignon blanc for each of us — not a bottle, “because it’s Lent” — followed by a bottle of claret, to have with our meal. They say Farage drinks less than he used to. They say a lot of things.”