“People are treated with contempt, and if you keep slapping people across the face, they organise and do something about it, and they have done in Epping and good on them.”
As more protests take place outside a migrant hotel in Epping, a government minister tells Newsnight he wants these hotels closed. Claire responded, along with Paul McNamee, editor of The Big Issue and presenter Paddy O’Connell.

Watch the discussion on iPlayer. (It begins 13 minutes in).