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Tories complicit in far-right attacks on refugee hotels, say trade union leaders
People taking part in a protest organised by far-right group Patriotic Alternative, face a counterprotest organised by anti-fascists from Cornwall Resists, outside the Beresford Hotel in Newquay, Cornwall

UNIONS accused Tory ministers today of being complicit in far-right violence outside hotels housing vulnerable asylum-seekers.

A joint statement signed by 14 trade union leaders pointed to MPs peddling “anti-migrant politics of attempting to divide working-class people against each other.”

The public criticism, co-ordinated by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), came after Tory Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson said last week that he had “sympathy” with anti-migrant protesters targeting hotels providing refuge for those fleeing war and persecution. 

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