Lucy Connolly has backed Epping's Pink Ladies as they descended on Westminster for their latest migrant hotel protest, declaring they are "not racist".

Speaking to GB News National Reporter Will Godley, Mrs Connolly said she is "so proud" of the campaign work by the Pink Ladies, urging the Labour Government to "control the borders".

The Epping-based protesters have taken their fight to London after an asylum seeker staying at local Bell Hotel was convicted of sexual assault against a 14-year-old girl.

Ethiopian asylum seeker Hadush Kebatu was sentenced to 12 months in prison and put on the UK sex offenders’ register for 10 years.

Lucy Connolly has joined the Pink Ladies on their migrant hotel protest outside Westminster, declaring they are 'not racist'

Telling GB News why she is supporting the Pink Ladies in their march, Mrs Connolly revealed: "I'm here to support these ladies and tell them how proud I am of them, because it's very difficult at the minute with everyone running scared of what they can and they can't say.

"But when it all boils down to it, our children are the most important. And these ladies are here to keep their children and their grandchildren and their families safe. And that's it."

Defending the women further, she stated: "They're not racist, they're not bigots, and they're not xenophobes.

"They're just mums and grandmas and aunties and people that love their children."

The Pink Ladies descended on Westminster today in a fresh protest against the use of migrant hotels

Asked by Will if she agrees with the 12-month sentence for Mr Kebatu in comparison to her 31-month prison sentence, she fumed: "No, I don't think that's fair, and I think we live in a country that's gone a bit mad when it comes to the judicial system.

"Regardless of whether you think that I should have gone to prison or shouldn't have gone to prison, I don't really know how you can say that's a less worse crime or offence than sending a tweet that was quickly deleted, than harming a child."

Delivering a message to the Labour Government amid calls to close the migrant hotels, Mrs Connolly said: "My message would be to secure the borders and to ensure that the people that we have already got here in the hotels, we process them as quickly as possible.

"We weed out anybody that may be a criminal and we get those that are fit to stay in the country into the system, working and contributing. The quicker we process these people, the safer will all be."

Outlining the strict rules for Britons when travelling between countries in comparison to illegal migrants, Mrs Connolly explained: "The amount of unchecked people, regardless of where they're from, who they are, male or female, whoever, we have borders and we have secure borders for a reason.

Mrs Connolly told GB News that the quicker Labour 'controls the borders', the 'safer we will all be'

"I can't just jump on a plane and go wherever I like without going through passport control, and with good reason.

"That's all I'm asking, is that these people, if they're let into the country, they're processed and they're checked before they're allowed to walk the streets with our children."

As Will highlighted that the Stand Up to Racism protesters would argue that their views are "racist", Mrs Connolly stated: "Do they look racist? In their pink t-shirts and their concerns about their children? They don't look very racist to me.

"And that word now, when what happened to me first happened, I was so upset thinking 'I don't want to be walking down the street and people calling me a racist, that's not who I am'.

"But it's kind of lost its meaning now, because that word is bandied about so much that everyone rolls their eyes and carry on.

"Now it has no effect, so obviously their definition of a racist is very different to my definition of a racist."