Mayfair’s £1,000-a-night five-star Connaught Hotel has some uninvited guests on its doorstep… migrant rough sleepers using the street as an open air toilet

It’s one of the most exclusive hotels in the world, where a suite can cost £20,000 a night and its flagship restaurant holds three Michelin stars.

But the Connaught in Mayfair also has a new and unwanted accolade: it’s the latest location of a squalid camp for homeless migrants.

The Daily Mail has documented the spread of these improvised shanty towns across the centre of London in recent months, most recently telling how the area around Marks and Spencer‘s flagship store on Oxford Street has become a no-go area at night because of antisocial behaviour by rough-sleeping migrants.

Now we can reveal that

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