Residents of Piddington, a village of around 350 people including 46 children in Oxfordshire, have declared that the war is not over after Angela Rayner approved plans for a camp to house 1,256 single male migrants at MoD Bicester. The village had symbolically voted to leave the UK in protest, and residents had described the plans as completely inappropriate and likely to overwhelm the community.

Parish Councillor Joe Marshall told BBC Newsnight that the application was poorly prepared, with serious discrepancies, and said the Government had in effect submitted and approved its own application. He said villagers had always expected the scheme to be approved, pointing to 28 conditions still to be discharged, which he said were largely about site viability. He also questioned whether the UK remained a democracy given the strength of local opposition, arguing the issue was not simply NIMBY but concerned a quadrupling of the population, emissions from generators and a rise in road collisions.S1

Parish council chairman Tim McNally said villagers would take many actions and that ministers should absolutely expect a legal challenge, invoking the Hillsborough Law. A six-week window now exists in which the decision can be challenged in the courts. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch called the plans a betrayal of the women of Piddington and a sign of Labour's disregard for the law and for women and girls' safety.S1