Britain's continued migrant crisis has sparked a blistering GB News row as Labour MP Barry Gardiner defended asylum seekers entering the country.

Delivering their verdict on the Epping migrant hotel being allowed to continue housing asylum seekers, Mr Gardiner told the GB News panel that Britons should "not condemn a whole group of people" due to the actions of a few.

On Friday, the Court of Appeal handed down its decision to reverse an earlier High Court order that would have prevented asylum seekers from staying at the Bell Hotel past September 12.

Debating the decision on Patrick Christys Tonight, Mr Gardiner defended the operation of migrant hotels and those staying in them.

Gardiner and Foufas clashed over Britain's migrant crisis

Mr Gardiner told the panel: "You should never condemn a whole group of people because of the actions of one of them.

"People who come here have to live by our laws, that's absolutely right. What is not right is to say that because some migrants commit crimes, all migrants are criminals, and responsible politicians have to make that clear."

Hitting back at the Labour MP, Senior Political Correspondent at the Daily Express Christian Calgie made clear that "any migrant who crosses the Channel into Britain is a criminal".

Mr Calgie stated: "Every single person who has come across the Channel on a small boat has already committed a crime, they came here illegally."

Protesters have been taking to the streets in Epping in their continued demonstration against the hotel | PA

Mr Gardiner argued further, responding: "50 per cent of the refugees in this country did not come across the Channel in a small boats, so actually, more than more than 50 per cent of those are not criminalised in international law.

"It is only the previous Government that said that the mode of transport made you a criminal."

Weighing in on the debate, broadcaster Cristo Foufas highlighted that Britons do "not want to walk home next to a building filled with undocumented men".

He said: "I don't care where the people come from, I don't care almost if they're migrants or not, I don't know anyone that would want to walk home next to a place housing a load of undocumented men."

Mr Gardiner claimed that Britons 'cannot condemn a whole group of migrants' for the actions of a few

Mr Gardiner then exclaimed: "The consequence is that you kick them out of the hotel, where are they then going to go? You say they're going to go back home, Reform tried that this week. They were going to pay the Taliban to send women and children back to Afghanistan.

"You want to close down the hotel first and have the conversation with the ayatollahs later? Idiotic!"

Mr Foufas snapped back at the Labour MP: "Sometimes we have to have conversations with different regimes that we don't like. We want to stop the pull factors from people coming here in the first place."

Mr Calgie then concluded: "The Labour Government promised to proscribe the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the reason it hasn't done so is because actually, it's found that having diplomatic relations with the Iranian regime, it's actually quite useful for our national security.

"It's the reason we still have an embassy open in Tehran, so Barry is now claiming we can't touch the Iranians, the Government seems to think differently."