Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s push to close asylum hotels and rehouse thousands on former military bases faces snowballing council opposition.
Braintree DC in Essex has become the first authority to take legal action over Home Office plans to turn former Ministry of Defence airfields into asylum centres.
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