Residents protesting an asylum hotel have told GB News the council needs to "get them out" after being slapped with a dispersal order.

The Home Office had paused controversial plans to change the hotel use from housing women and children to housing single male asylum seekers.

Proposals were paused following objections from both Spelthorne Borough Council (SBC) and the local community.

However, around 150 protesters met outside the council hall, with around 60 to 70 people going in to hear the council meeting.

GB News spoke to some of those who protested outside the headquarters, who said that "everyone in the town" knows there are issues there.

One said: "Basically we don't want those people. They're all male orientated, they're not being vetted. We don't know where they're from or what their background is."

Another added: "My daughter has been waiting 18 years for her and her three little children to be housed. Nothing.

"But they're here and they're getting everything. So how is that fair?"

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Another told GB News: "I want Government to change. I was always conservative. Never Labour."

When asked about Nigel Farage, he said: "I mean, give him a chance, give somebody else a go."

At one point, the head of community services tells the crowd they are "on the side of residents."

They welcomed people to attend the meeting, telling the crowd: "You're the public, and you have a democratic right to be in the chamber. And we have the debate."

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A leaflet was disrupted to the crowd that called on the Home Office to "give due regard to public concerns local services and the local community."

The Home Office said it is fixing a "broken system" and that the security of local communities around hotels was always a "paramount concern".

A spokesman told GB News: "Since taking office, we have taken immediate action to fix the asylum system and have started closing down hotels and returning more than 35,000 people with no right to be here.

“From over 400 asylum hotels open in summer 2023, costing almost £9million a day, there are now less than 210, and we want them all closed by the end of this Parliament.

“We will continue to work closely with community partners across the country, and discuss any concerns they have, as we look to fix this broken system together.”

However, new data exclusively seen by GB News suggests an increase in the numbers of asylum seekers living in hotels since the Labour Party came into power.

When Labour came into office, there were 29,585 migrants in hotels. But as of March 30, the number soared to 32,345.

Discussing the findings on GB News, the man who crunched the figures - Ben Philips - told host Martin Daubney: "This has been an ongoing issue for many, many years. As we know, it was a crucial part of the Brexit referendum.

"To take control of our laws, our borders and our money, and every single one of those has been broken, not least borders itself."