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Welcome to Navaralive. I'm Helena, aka No, MTG. You know who it is. And I'm joined

tonight by Kieran Andrea. Kieran. We have to stop meeting like this. No, I disagree. We

mustn't stop meeting like this. And as always, Helena, there is nowhere I would rather be

on a Thursday evening at 6pm than joining you to co-host Navaralive.

So great to be here.

All joking aside, the feeling is, as always, incredibly mutual, Kieran,

it is a pleasure to share the show with you tonight.

Speaking of which, coming up tonight, Labour has overseen an increase in the use of asylum hotels.

More evidence that the Israel lobby is very, very real indeed, and we look at the left-wing candidates revitalising the

Democratic Party in the United States. If you like Sohran Mamdani, you're sure to love these guys

too. Stay tuned for all of that and more. Our first story tonight. It's been a difficult week for the

Labour government when it comes to migration. On Tuesday, a judge ordered a hotel in Epping housing

asylum seekers to close after a council obtained an injunction. By Wednesday, Conservative councils

across England said they were planning to do the same, egged on by the Tory leader Kemi Badnog.

And today, Labour councils have said they're considering doing the exact same.

In total, AT Labor, Conservative and Reform councils have said they're considering legal challenges

against hotels in their districts used to house asylum seekers.

If that comes to fruition, it will leave Kirstama's

government with a huge problem on its hands. With an estimated 30,000 asylum seekers currently housed

in just over 200 hotels, the forced closure of even a third of them would give the government

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