Anti-migrant protests spread across Britain over the weekend, with police separating rival groups outside about 30 hotels that are temporarily housing asylum seekers. Demonstrators converged on sites in Epping, Bristol and Birmingham after a court ordered the removal of migrants from one London-area hotel, highlighting public anger over the ballooning cost of hotel accommodation for claimants and recent criminal cases linked to residents. Facing rising tensions and a record asylum backlog, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government on Sunday announced plans to overhaul the appeals system. An independent panel of professional adjudicators will replace the current tribunal structure in an effort to clear 106,000 pending cases, including 51,000 appeals, and to phase out the use of hotels. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the changes are intended to "restore control and order" to a process she described as being in “complete chaos,” while cutting annual spending that officials say runs into the billions of pounds. Two days later, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage sought to seize the initiative with an even tougher blueprint dubbed “Operation Restoring Justice.” Speaking in Oxfordshire, Farage called illegal migration a “scourge” and pledged to deport as many as 600,000 people who entered the country irregularly during a first five-year term in office. His proposals include withdrawing the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights, repealing the Human Rights Act, expanding detention capacity to 24,000 places on former RAF bases and operating five charter flights a day. Reform estimates the programme would cost £10 billion but claims it would save £7 billion currently spent on accommodation and support. Labour ministers dismissed the Farage plan as unworkable and warned of diplomatic and legal obstacles, while Conservatives accused Reform of repackaging earlier Tory proposals. With opinion polls showing immigration has overtaken the economy as voters’ top concern, both the government’s procedural reforms and Reform UK’s mass-deportation pledge underscore the political pressure to curb small-boat arrivals and end the reliance on hotels.