Groups gathered peacefully outside hotels used to house migrants in Birmingham and London’s Canary Wharf on Sunday. The hotelsThe government is legally obligated to house asylum-seekers. The number of asylum-seekers housed in hotels stood at just over 32,000 at the end of June, the Home Office said. The ruling Labour Party dismissed her appeal as “desperate and hypocritical nonsense,” but several Labour-led councils have also suggested they, too, could mount legal action against asylum hotels in their areas. The government scrapped the use of a barge to house migrants off the south coast earlier this year and plans to end housing at military barracks in Kent next month.