UK politics live: minister pushes back at Tory claims linking small boat arrivals to sexual crime

Angela Eagle says data is not there to support Robert Jenrick’s assertions as Nigel Farage prepares to also address issue in press conference

In her interviews this morning Angela Eagle, the minister for border security and asylum, was asked what her message was to people who have been protesting outside hotels used to house asylum seekers. She told Sky News:

Anger doesn’t get you anywhere.

What we have to do is recognise the values we have in this country, the rule of law we have in this country, the work we’re doing with the police to protect people.

Those who are worried and demonstrating have an absolute right to do that, so long as they do it peacefully.

People don’t have a right to then have a pop at the police, which has been happening in some isolated cases outside hotels.

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