Food delivery firms reject claim they use undocumented riders

Food deliverers from Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats have been barred from entering a luxury apartment complex near to where protests against asylum seekers have taken place, with management citing reports that made claims about "undocumented" workers.

- Ben Quinn

The food firms pushed back at the suggestion couriers were undocumented, saying they had zero tolerance policies on illegal working.

The delivery ban was linked by the complex's management company, Parkgate Aspen, to controversy at a nearby hotel in Canary Wharf, London, where protests and counter-protests have been taking place because it was believed asylum seekers were housed there.

In a "security notice" sent to hundreds of flats at the Canary Riverside development, the company said residents had been expressing concern about security arrangements in light of the "appropriation of the nearby Britannia hotel for migrant housing and the resultant unrest".