with me now is migration policy expert zoe gardner. thanks for coming on the programme.eally thorny and difficult issue over the last couple of months, especially? yes. couple of months, especially? yes, it absolutely _ couple of months, especially? yes, it absolutely has _ couple of months, especially? yes, it absolutely has and _ couple of months, especially? yes, it absolutely has and we _ couple of months, especially? yes it absolutely has and we need to remember that this is a decision made by this government in 2020 is a covid safety measure to move people out of the ordinary asylum accommodation that had been used up until then and into hotels. and it is a deliberate political choice to continue to house people and hotels. everybody who works with refugees knows about their needs and their welfare has been asking the government to move people out of hotels. it is completely inappropriate form of accommodation for them and now it has become a target for organised far right violent thuggery like these awful scenes we saw last night and we have to imagine how terrifi

earlier, i spoke to migration policy expert zoe gardner.ng asylum seekers in appropriate accommodation. we need to remember that this is a decision made by this government in 2020 as a covid safety measure to move people out of the ordinary asylum accommodation that had been used up until then and into hotels. and it is a deliberate political choice to continue to house people in hotels. everybody who works with refugees knows about their needs and knows about their needs and their welfare has been asking the government to move people out of hotels. it is a completely inappropriate form of accommodation for them and now it has become a target for organised far right violent thuggery like these awful scenes we saw last night and we have to imagine how terrified the men, women and children in that hotel who have and children in that hotel — who have escaped in many cases situations of war and violence and persecution — must have felt. it is absolutely unacceptable. this kind of behaviour is justified by rhetoric that comes right from the top