Protests continued in the United Kingdom on Sunday over the use of hotels to house asylum seekers as the government set out plans for a fast-track appeal process to speed up the removal of people with no right to be in the country.<\/p>\n
A group of protesters, some draped in the St George\u2019s Cross flag, gathered outside a hotel in Birmingham, while in London police stood guard at another hotel in Canary Wharf.<\/p>\n
Ministers hope the overhaul of the asylum appeal process will make it easier to get people out of hotels and on planes out of the UK.<\/p>\n
After protests on Saturday across the UK which resulted in at least 15 arrests, demonstrations continued on Sunday.<\/p>\n
In Birmingham protesters peered in through the doors of the hotel and one was seen scaling a ladder to hang a flag on a lamp post by the hotel\u2019s sign.<\/p>\n
At Canary Wharf, police officers stood at the entrance to the Britannia Hotel while security guards could also be seen standing behind full-length barriers that blocked off the entrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Protests continued in the United Kingdom on Sunday over the use of hotels to house asylum seekers as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1417,2426,45271,24157,59,57,58,45270,1634,388,50,45269,1708,56,45272,54,55],"class_list":["post-90757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-asylum-seekers","tag-birmingham","tag-britannia-hotel","tag-canary-wharf","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-home-secretary-yvette-cooper","tag-labour","tag-london","tag-news","tag-st-georges-cross-flag","tag-the-united-kingdom","tag-uk","tag-union-flags","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}