The far-right group Britain First has been duped into protesting outside hotels which do not contain asylum seekers after being supplied with a fake list including the Dorchester on Park Lane, London, and a pub hotel owned by an associate of Dominic Cummings. Supporters of Britain First last year entered hotels used by the Home Office to accommodate asylum seekers and started banging on bedroom doors and antagonising the asylum seekers there. They are now resuming these hotel visits and put out an appeal to members of the public to give them the names of hotels where they knew asylum seekers were being accommodated. Pro-migrant groups responded in droves. About 600 people contacted Britain First provided the names of decoy hotels. Britain First’s leader, Paul Golding, and chair, Ashlea Simon, put out a video on social media indicating that they had not realised that they had been bombarded with fake hotel names by opponents. Simon said they had received a long list of hotel names from members of the public and had started to visit them. She can be seen holding the list. Speaking to camera she said: “When we visited these hotels we were met with empty rooms. No illegal immigrants.” Pro–migrant groups have hailed the stunt sending the far right on a wild goose chase as a success. One member of a pro-migrant group, who only wished to be identified by their twitter handle, Marsh4LL, said: “Paul Golding put out a request via the Britain First website so I contacted every like-minded person that I know to bombard Paul and Ashlea with as many hotel addresses in the north-west that had zero connections with housing asylum seekers and it worked a treat. They were most definitely taken in by this.” The Britain First hotel incident comes as far-right watchers report an increase in far-right activity at hotels believed to be accommodating asylum seekers. Although Britain First supporters visited some of the hotels on the fake list they have also been visiting hotels which do contain asylum seekers. Police were called to one Nottingham hotel on 17 April when supporters of Britain First entered and went from hotel room to hotel room demanding to know if the occupants of the rooms were asylum seekers and which countries they had come from. Hope Not Hate and Migration Exchange say that along with an increase in visits to hotels, some of the far right are filming on an almost daily basis at Dover where small boats arrive containing migrants. They report that the far-right figure Tommy Robinson, aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has recently turned his attention to hotels believed to be accommodating asylum seekers. Care4Calais, which is supporting asylum seekers in 50 different hotels along with other Home Office accommodation, has produced a briefing about a litany of concerns about asylum seeker accommodation. The report states that between 4 and 17 April, at least eight hotels accommodating asylum seekers were visited by Britain First. Clare Moseley, the founder of Care4Calais, said: “Britain First’s attempt to resurrect last year’s campaign of visiting asylum seekers’ hotels is sickening. It’s an act of sheer cowardice. They challenge people who can’t answer back and who are at a disadvantage due to lack of legal status.” Golding said: “Yes, loads of bogus submissions were inputted by leftwing, pro-migrant activists, but these were filtered out very easily. The hotels we visited were 100% being used – up until recently – to house illegal immigrants.” He added that Britain First members had not visited the Dorchester, although it had been submitted.