High court asylum hotels ruling leaves Cooper scrambling for alternatives

Yvette Cooper joins a long line of home secretaries struggling to find substitutes for hotels as anti-migrant fervour grows

Yvette Cooper, thanks to Tuesday's high court ruling, is facing potentially explosive decisions over where to house asylum seekers if courts rule that they must leave hotels.

The Home Office, usually under Conservative ministers, has been struggling for five years to find an alternative to hotels so they can house a growing number of asylum seekers reaching these shores.