He repeated Labour’s promise to close asylum hotels by 2029, but added in an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live: “I would like to bring that forward”.

It follows widespread anger over the Home Office arguing that the rights of asylum seekers are more important than the concerns of local communities.

Government officials said anger from “local residents” over migrant hotels must be “viewed in the context of demands on the accommodation estate”.

The Court of Appeal will today hand down its full written judgment in the Bell Hotel case.

The Home Office last week succeeded in overturning an interim injunction which would have led to the hotel’s closure.

Epping Forest District Council, which applied for the injunction, is considering taking the case to the Supreme Court.

Protests continued in Epping on Sunday and police arrested three people.

About 200 demonstrators gathered outside the council building on Sunday, where a woman climbed the steps and unfurled a Union flag.

Sir Keir said: “I understand why people want the hotels closed, I want them closed.

“I will work across the board to close them as quickly as possible. That is my aspiration.

“Every one of those hotels to be closed down as quickly as possible.”

Asked “when”, the Prime Minister responded: “We have said we will get rid of them all by the end of the Parliament.

“I would like to bring that forward. I think it is a good challenge. I want to bring that forward.”

“Do I understand why people are concerned about the use of asylum hotels, absolutely I do. Do I believe they should be closed as soon as possible? Yes, I do. But we have got to have a sensible way of actually doing that. And not a fanciful proposition.

“It’s all very easy for Nigel Farage to put out propositions that aren’t going to work. It’s actually not fair to the public to keep pretending these answers are there.”

Shocking Home Office figures revealed there are some 32,059 migrants still living in hotels. This is up 8% from 29,585 in the year to June 2024. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will unveil reforms to the border security and asylum system as Parliament returns on Monday from its summer break.

She will say the Government’s overhaul of the “broken” asylum system will contribute to ending the use of asylum hotels.

Reform UK has called for Britain to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in order to tackle the migration crisis while the Conservatives are currently reviewing whether they should take the same approach.

Article eight of the agreement, the right to family life, has been used during court cases to justify illegal migrants remaining in the UK.

The Policy Exchange think tank has claimed that leaving the ECHR would not jeopardise peace in Northern Ireland, where it underpins the Good Friday Agreement.

No 10 said the move was not under consideration, telling reporters: “The Government has been clear that Britain will remain a member of the ECHR and that shutting ourselves off from the international stage will make it harder, not easier, to return people, and you do not strike international agreements by tearing up international agreements.”

The Government is also not considering suspending how the treaty applies to UK law, or decoupling human rights law from the agreement, as suggested by former Labour minister Jack Straw, No 10 said.

Ministers will, however, be “bringing forward new legislation on tightening the application of article eight”, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman added.

In her statement on Monday afternoon, Ms Cooper will set out planned changes to the refugee family reunion process, to give “greater fairness and balance”.

The BBC has reported she plans to tighten rules for migrants granted asylum to bring their families to the UK, including tougher English language standards and access to sufficient funds.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said Labour “do not have the stomach” to take stronger action on immigration control.

Speaking to reporters during a visit on Monday, the Conservative Party leader said: “Well, what I would actually like to see the Home Secretary talk about is how she’s going to close down the asylum hotels. What they have done with their recent court case is actually shown that they believe that illegal migrants have more rights than our local communities, and we completely disagree with that.

“We had a deportation Bill, which we asked Labour to support, we talked about disapplying the Human Rights Act so you wouldn’t even get to some of the circumstances that she’s talking about. There’s a lot more that can be done on immigration control. Labour do not have the stomach to do it. We do, and we have the plans as well.”

The Government said earlier this year that it would seek to reduce the number of people claiming “exceptional circumstances” over the right to family life in order to remain in the UK under article eight of the ECHR.

It said in its immigration white paper that Parliament would set out a tighter framework for judges to follow when ruling on such cases. On Monday, the Home Secretary will claim that the Government’s promise to “smash the gangs” behind English Channel crossings are showing results in stopping people arriving in the first place.