Lee Anderson has hit out at Conservative members who are calling for the closure of migrant hotels, revealing he was told to "shut up" about closing them when the Tories were in power.
Speaking to GB News, the Reform UK MP said he was "shouting from the rooftops" to close the hotels when he was a Tory representative, but was ignored.
The Labour Government are facing widespread calls to close the hotels housing asylum seekers, following a series of incidents in Epping.
The Bell Hotel has been allowed to stay open following a Court of Appeal ruling, overturning the injunction issued by Epping Forest Council.
Lee Anderson told GB News he was told to 'shut up' after calling for migrant hotels to be closed
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Detailing what happened when he was in the Conservative Party, Mr Anderson told GB News: "I think it's a bit rich when you see the Tories there, people like Robert Jenrick putting flags up, banging on about hotels being open. This is the party that opened the hotels.
"I was in that party, I was screaming from the rooftops behind closed doors to stop opening the hotels. They told me to shut up. But they're not shutting up now, are they?"
He added: "I see some of the Tory MPs now, who I'm quite furious with to be honest, never mentioned the hotels, they never mentioned the hotels. They told me to shut up.
"The same MPs now, now they've got a hotel in their patch, what are they doing now? Protesting."
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"It was then reopened then under this Government, and I think it was a third of these hotels were closed at the time of the general election. But they were being closed."
Pointing out the Rwanda plan, Mr Anderson argued that if Rishi Sunak had "sent that plane off", then the migrant crisis "would be stopped".
Mr Anderson fumed: "When that aeroplane was on the tarmac, I think it was three years ago now, with some of the asylum seekers on if Rishi had sent that off, this problem would have been stopped now.
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"They should have ignored the injunction. We need to grow a backbone in this country. We had successive Governments who lacked the political will and courage to sort out this problem."
He added: "Meanwhile, we've got supposedly asylum seekers, let's remember they're illegal migrants pretending to be asylum seekers, they're roaming our streets, they're costing the taxpayer £41,000 a year, and some are going on to commit horrific crimes, sexual attacks, murders and acts of terror. What the hell are we playing out as a country?"
Backing Nigel Farage's plan to tackle illegal migration, the Reform MP concluded: "Nigel actually said that when illegal migrants come to this country, they will be immediately detained, they will be put in a camp, and the only time that they leave that camp will be on a plane or a boat to another country.
"I'll tell you what, after a week or so, they'll stop coming."