I'm Ed Vasey, and we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day

from protests outside asylum hotels to Jeremy Corbyn's new party,

and where the modern adaptations of Shakespeare plays ever were.

Joining me today is the Labour peer Tangham-debinare.

Welcome, Tangam. Hi I head. And the former BBC

political correspondent Robin Brandt. Welcome Robin. Hello, how are you? Very good to have you both on

the show. Thank you so much. Obviously the big news that everyone is talking about is the asylum

hotel issue. The pending the interim court judgment that the hotel in Epping

can't be used to host asylum seekers and the planned demonstrations apparently about outside

asylum hotels which are planned for this weekend and for the bank holiday. Lots of councils are

now looking at whether or not to take legal

cases and this is the Conservative leader of East Lindsay District Council, Craig Layland,

speaking to Times Radio Breakfast this morning about the issue. As a leader of the council,

I've written to various secretaries of state and ministers to express our frustration and concern about we've had five

hotels being used at one stage so we've really had a burden of this I am very concerned about

community cohesion if there are demonstrations and especially if those demonstrations are going

to be pursued by people from outside of the area coming here to cause trouble for us.

Well, let's start with you, Tangham, Debenair, because you are obviously a Labour peer and

would have been in the Labour government had you won your seat at the last election.

The government is in a complete mess on asylum seekers, isn't it?

Well, what we've got here is a system which has ground to a halt over many years.

And at the time of the last general election, when I was a constituency MP, I had a huge

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