A Plymouth Independent councillor has slammed the city council for "muddying the waters" around the issue of asylum hotels.

Cllr Steve Ricketts (Ind, Drake) put forward a motion on notice to full council on Monday asking the leader Tudor Evans (Lab, Ham) to write to the government to state that the city does not want any asylum hotels. He said it would have made the council’s view “crystal clear” to the people of Plymouth and asked for all members to back him.

Instead the council accepted an amendment put forward by Labour councillors which Cllr Ricketts said was “lots of words and not enough action and summed up the chaos in Labour’s immigration policy".

He said: “We need to break the cycle of hotels. We do not want asylum hotels appearing in Plymouth because of demand coming across th

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