'Sit down with four Pink Ladies!' Migrant protest founder challenges Labour over HMOs

Speaking on GB News, she warned that moving migrants into HMOs could put women and children at risk, insisting her group is stepping in to protect communities where authorities are failing.

GB News host Martin Daubney described the Pink Ladies as a grassroots movement “flipping the script” on safety, focusing on sisterhood and community protection in areas affected by the crisis.

Ms Kavanagh said: "I've had so many reporters speak to me, and they say, ‘What do you want to say to Keir Starmer?’

"I would say to him: sit down with four Pink Ladies, and we will tell you what happens on the ground. We will tell you how it works and how to fix it.

"You can’t do it without us. We’re the ones who have to live it. Okay, you’re going to get them out of the hotels and put them in HMOs. That’s so dangerous.

"You’re then putting unidentified men into streets everywhere. We don’t know. When the little girl goes by whether they go into a house or a hotel, there’s police outside, security guards outside, metal fences. That is my fear."

"The HMOs, when they put them outside, they are going to be scattered everywhere, and we’re not going to know where they are."

Martin said: "You know what’s incredible about listening to you? You’re obviously a proper working-class heroine.

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"I say that in the nicest possible terms. You’re the sort of person who should be honoured and commended by Governments.

"In the past, the Labour Party would have been holding you or people like you up as heroes. That’s all changed now, isn’t it? We seem to be in an era where the working classes are treated as an inconvenience, something to be silenced."

Her comments came as hundreds of women gathered in Westminster today for a demonstration focused on protecting women's and children's safety.

The Pink Ladies demonstration took place between 9.30am and 2pm, with participants wearing bright pink clothing and carrying matching flags whilst singing and dancing through Whitehall.

The women's protest movement formed following incidents at migrant accommodation facilities, including an arrest for sexual assault of a teenage girl at the Bell Hotel in Epping.

Government data reveals that over the past three years, 312 individuals seeking asylum have faced charges for 708 alleged crimes, encompassing 18 rape charges, five attempted rapes and 35 sexual assaults.

Demonstrators called for enhanced police patrols after dark and demanded that migrants be accommodated away from schools until proper background checks are completed.