Sir Keir Starmer is facing ballot box fury in at least 20 seats as a result of public anger about housing asylum seekers in hotels, GB News analysis has revealed.
Just days after the High Court granted a temporary injunction to force the removal of migrants staying at The Bell Hotel in Epping, the People's Channel has uncovered how the seats that have witnessed significant protests have been spearheading a petition to force an immediate General Election.
Epping, which has been a Tory-held seat since 1970, drummed up more than 2,300 signatures, putting the leafy Essex seat behind only Braintree, Brentwood & Ongar, Burnley, Castle Point, Portsmouth North and Rayleigh & Wickford nationwide.
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Hundreds of locals took to the streets to protest the decision to house dozens of asylum seekers at The Bell Hotel after 41-year-old Hadush Kebatu, from Ethiopia, was charged with sexual assault, harassment and inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity.
Mohammed Sharwarq, a 32-year-old Syrian national, became the second man charged from The Bell Hotel over two allegations of common assault and four of assault by beating.
However, GB News's number-crunchers have found even more seats which appear to have witnessed a migration-induced boom in support for an immediate General Election.
From Labour-held Poplar & Limehouse to Green-voting Waveney Valley, and Reform-represented Ashfield to Tory-backing Fareham & Waterlooville, a growing tide of public resentment is fuelling a potentially catastrophic political backlash directed straight towards Sir Keir.
But where are the seats that indicate Britain's migration crisis could play a huge role in deciding who gets the keys to No10 in 2029?
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Poplar & Limehouse
The safe Labour seat of Poplar & Limehouse might seem a surprise inclusion on the list. Having once had ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee as the local MP, Poplar & Limehouse has been a dyed-in-the-wool since 1922.
Aspana Begum, a member of the left-wing Socialist Campaign Group, retained the East London seat with a 12,560-vote majority last year.
However, following Ms Begum's suspension over last July's two-child benefit cap suspension, the seat has been earmarked as a potential target for Jeremy Corbyn's Your Party.
Despite the tendency to assume Poplar & Limehouse is an emphatically left-wing seat, recent protests outside the Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf have raised eyebrows.
The second General Election petition could count on signatures from more than 1,150 constituents, sealing top spot for Poplar & Limehouse in inner London.
The staunchly Labour seat secured top spot by an enormous margin, fending off challenges from once-Tory hotbeds, like Chelsea & Fulham and Cities of London & Westminster.
And it is a similar story just eight miles away in Islington South. Neighbouring Jeremy Corbyn's home patch of Islington North, it would be fair to assume that Emily Thornberry's North London seat of Guardian-loving, coffee-sipping, avocado-eating members of the intelligentsia might not have felt so impassioned by a migrant hotel.
However, GB News understands that a new set of Union Jacks and flags of St George have been put up down leafy Amwell Street. The seat, which recorded more than 700 signatures, has also hosted anti-migrant protesters and counter-demonstrations from anti-racism activists.
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Police officers form a barrier in front of counter-protesters separating them from the Stand Up to Racism rally outside the Britannia International Hotel in Canary Wharf
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Waveney Valley
In what was once a sea of English Conservatism, Waveney Valley fell to the Green Party as the Tories lost their grip on East Anglia in the 2024 General Election.
Despite voting decisively to leave the European Union in 2016, Brussels fanatic might not have been the expected choice for the rural Norfolk seat.
However, with the Greens also pushing for looser rules around illegal migrants working while having their asylum claims checked, Mr Ramsay appears to be facing an even bigger ballot box backlash, one that is also almost certainly being directed towards Sir Keir.
Outside of Essex, once an enclave of Eurosceptic populism, Waveney Valley stands as one of the East of England's top seats for wanting an immediate General Election. With almost 1,700 signatures, Waveney Valley stands behind only Great Yarmouth, Mid Norfolk, South West Norfolk and North East Cambridgeshire in being the most fervent about holding another snap poll.
Unlike other corners of the region, often areas almost certainly being eyed up as likely Reform gains, a major driver behind Waveney Valley's discontent is dissatisfaction with housing migrants in Diss.
Police have been forced to intervene as protesters assembled outside an asylum hotel in the quaint market town. Two men have even been charged following the protests.
However, the local Tory-run council stopped short of following in Epping's footsteps. South Norfolk District Council leader Daniel Elmer instead said that the authority was using planning rules to ensure it was families being housed in the area rather than single adult males.
But the situation poses as much of a challenge to Mr Ramsay as it does to Sir Keir. While Waveney Valley's signature tally stands just below 1,700, the Green Party's liberal leaning seats of Brighton Pavilion and Bristol Central recorded just 643 and 290 signatures.
Even in North Herefordshire, where a military influence could tilt the balance towards a more small-c conservative picture, the total was slightly lower at around 1,400.
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Fareham & Waterlooville
Fareham & Waterlooville completed its fightback against housing illegal migrants just days before Epping declared victory at the High Court. Supported by ex-Home Secretary local MP Suella Braverman, Havant Borough Council was forced to back down when
Ms Braverman claimed that more than 10,000 constituents signed her own petition opposing the proposal. The figure was around five times as many as the almost 2,200 who backed an immediate General Election on Parliament's official website.
Neighbouring Havant also appeared animated after the debacle, with 2,300 bolstering the number of Britons putting pressure on the Prime Minister in Hampshire alone.
And the coastal spot appears to have become Hampshire's hotspot for General Election fever. The figure in both Fareham & Waterlooville and Havant is considerably higher than in other parts of the county, excluding nearby Portsmouth North.
However, such a switch poses a potential challenge to Sir Keir. Ms Braverman's 2019 mega-majority of 21,276 notional votes was slashed to just 6,079 ballots last summer. While Nowcast is now expecting Reform UK to surge from fourth to first, Labour's support is also nearing single digits.
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Ex-Home Secretary Suella Braverman congratulating residents for the victory in Waterlooville
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Falkirk
Heading north of the border, another Labour-held seat that has also witnessed anti-migrant protests emerges as a major outlier in an otherwise apathetic part of the country.
The Central Belt, once seen as safely in Scottish National Party hands, mostly sees the number of signatories per constituency stand between 400 and 800.
However, Falkirk stands tall in a sea of indifferent amber. The lightly painted red constituency, which resembles the number of signatories rather than Labour vote share, added more than 1,000 names of aggrieved locals to the overall tally of more than 810,000.
Labour's Euan Stainbank won the seat from the SNP on a swing of 25.7 per cent, with both the Tories and Reform UK receiving just 16 per cent support combined.
However, with Reform UK already putting up a strong performance just 24 miles away in Hamilton, the sight of migrant protests will send jitters across Labour circles in Edinburgh and London.
Anti-racism campaigners have labelled protesters who demonstrated outside a former hotel housing asylum seekers as "extremists".
Gary Clark, from Falkirk Trade Union Council, said he saw "some really awful sights" at the event. He also even alleged that he witnessed "neo-Nazi groups openly displaying banners".
GB News understands that the protest group in Falkirk started around 18 months ago after an asylum seeker staying in the area raped a 15-year-old girl in broad daylight. He was later sentenced to spend nine years in prison.
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Anti-racism counter-protesters (left) across from the demonstrators protesting against "uncontrolled illegal immigration"
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Rhondda & Ogmore
In the heart of the Welsh valleys, Rhondda & Ogmore appears to have cemented itself as one of the seats pushing for an immediate General Election due to misinformation.
While many voters will have grievances against Sir Keir's Government, anti-migration sentiment about a local asylum hotel appears somewhat unfounded.
Following speculation that asylum seekers were being housed in the traditionally safe Labour seat, the local council said: "We can confirm that these rumours are unsubstantiated and untrue."
However, Labour has found its support diminishing in Wales since the 2024 General Election, losing support to Reform on the right and Plaid Cymru to its left.
The constituency recorded the highest number of signatures in the General Election petition of any seat in Wales, standing at 1,873. Meanwhile, Reform UK's top target in Wales, Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, recorded 1,441 signatures.
RAF Wethersfield, one of the ex-RAF bases, being used to house asylum seekers
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Long before Epping's High Court victory, it was another corner of Essex that was taking legal action over housing illegal migrants.
RAF Wethersfield, a former Anglo-American airbase later commandeered by the Ministry of Defence, is now open to as many as 800 Channel crossing asylum seekers.
The number of new arrivals could soon take the overall figure to 1,245, with as many as 60 new asylum seekers entering the site every week. Ex-Home Secretary James Cleverly, who just so happens to be Braintree's local MP, claimed as far back as 2023 that he wanted to close the site.
However, unlike the situation in Epping, the campaign to close RAF Wethersfield has seen more legal stumbling blocks than outright victories.
Campaigners claimed victory back in July 2023 when Braintree District Council, alongside a local resident, won approval to take legal action against asylum centres.
Despite efforts to close RAF Wethersfield, the site has expanded since Labour came to power last July. Speaking ahead of the 2024 General Election, Sir Keir vowed to close RAF Wethersfield for good. But, perhaps unsurprisingly, the Prime Minister refused to put a timeline on its expected closure.
The result of putting more than 1,000 illegal migrants in a village of little over 1,200 people has been a ballot box backlash.
The petition demanding an immediate General Election received a staggering 2,300 signatures, making Braintree one of the top constituencies for engagement.
And Labour's efforts to unseat Mr Cleverly, which fell just 3,670 votes short last year, now seem to have gone up in some.
Nowcast's projects Mr Cleverly has an unenviable task in holding onto his seat. Reform UK is now opening up a 15-point lead over the ex-Foreign Secretary. But it is also bad news for Sir Keir, with Labour's support almost halving to just 15.4 per cent.
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In the West Midlands, Nuneaton has perhaps become the biggest tinderbox for migrant protests. Following a series of comments from Warwickshire County Council's Reform UK leader George Finch, the eyes of the political establishment fixated on the town of just 90,000 people.
While protesters and counter-protesters continue to clash in the Midlands town, hundreds of people have decided to make their feelings clear in a different way. Almost 2,100 residents signed the petition to demand an immediate General Election.
The result is quite out of kilter with the rest of the area, excluding Tamworth and Cannock Chase.
All three seats share some interesting characteristics: all Brexit-backing, all ex-Tory, and all now leaning to Reform UK.
However, all three seats have also hosted demonstrations against using hotels to house illegal migrants.
Looking at Nuneaton, where Reform finished third with 9,059 votes last year, the Prime Minister's challenge is getting tougher by the day.
The 2025 Local Elections saw Warwickshire fall to Reform UK's turquoise tsunami, setting out a potential path for Mr Farage's march to No10.
Nowcast is projecting a similar picture, with Reform UK surging from a respectable third to a comfortable first-place finish, leaving Labour and the Tories to battle it out for second place on half the vote share.