A Nottinghamshire MP has said protests outside asylum seeker hotels are 'just human nature'. Lee Anderson, the Conservative MP for Ashfield and Tory Deputy Chairman, told the BBC's Political Thinking podcast recent protests outside of hotels housing asylum seekers were a display of 'human nature', prompted by what he called 'sudden changes' in communities.
"They're saying things to young girls and I know there's been a few attacks and some horrible incidents. Of course people are going to be concerned, that's just human nature. At the end of the day, when you live in a community you expect to be safe and you don't like sudden change, that's how humans behave."
Speaking to the BBC's Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast, he added: "Things were more expensive I think back in the Seventies. Food was definitely more expensive, relatively speaking people were paying a lot more of a percentage of their wages on food then, that's just how it was.
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