Clare Golby: Councillors have a duty to protect their residents from asylum hotels

Clare Golby: Councillors have a duty to protect their residents from asylum hotels

Clare Golby is a former councillor on Warwickshire County Council and Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council No one could have missed what’s happening in towns and cities up and down our country. People don’t whisper in hushed tones or skirt around it anymore. What was once off-limits pub talk is now everyday conversation. It’s being chewed over in the supermarket queue, picked apart by mums at the school gate, and widely debated on the doorstep.…