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Village votes on UK independence over asylum housing

Newsnight spent the day in the Oxfordshire village which today held a symbolic vote on leaving the UK in protest at plans to house 1,200 male asylum seekers nearby.

Newsnight spent the day in the Oxfordshire village which today held a symbolic vote on leaving the UK in protest at plans to house 1,200 male asylum seekers at a disused MOD site next door. How should the government respond? We hear fears from some about the far right exploiting villages like Piddington. Plus the triple-lock with Victoria Derbyshire

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