Thetford crowd confronts Labour MP over RAF Barham migrant plan

Demonstrators had been gathering outside Thetford’s Guildhall before the meeting, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

At least 20 of them also went into the council chamber, hoping to ask questions of about plans for the site.

They were told that because it was an extraordinary meeting, called to sign off the council’s end-of-year audit, there was no public question time.

Jermy, who is also a town councillor, left the meeting and a group gathered around him.

He was followed for about 400 metres (1,300ft) through the town centre, accompanied by a female member of staff and Terry Land, a Labour councillor.

The encounter was filmed by the demonstrators, as well as by Land.

In the group’s footage, Jermy is shouted at and called “disgraceful”, a “loser” and repeatedly asked “do you understand?”.

He was followed to his parked car and then he circled back to his constituency office.

RAF Barnham, or Barnham Camp, is a storage facility rather than an airfield, and it has been used as accommodation for military personnel.

It is in the constituency of Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, rather than in Jermy’s Norfolk constituency.

He has “strongly objected” to the proposal after the government confirmed last week that Barnham was one of the sites it hoped to use to house asylum seekers, as it sought to move migrants out of hotels.