The shadow local government secretary has accused Labour of leaving councils with ‘short term fixes', identifying asylum hotels as a key area ‘showing strain'.
Writing exclusively in The MJ ahead of the Conservative Party conference in Manchester next week, Sir James Cleverly said: ‘When I was home secretary, we closed sites like The Bell Hotel in Epping and halved the number of asylum hotels. The principle was clear: hotels are not the right place for asylum seekers, and they are not fair on the towns that host them.'
