Lucy Connolly was jailed this week for inciting hatred in the wake of the Southport attacks, when she posted on X saying the hotels hosting asylum seekers should be "set fire" to

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Lucy Connolly, who is married to West Northamptonshire councillor Raymond Connolly, took to X, formerly Twitter, on July 29, writing: “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the bastards for all I care… If that makes me racist, so be it.”

Raymond Connolly has been urged to resign by an MP after his wife was jailed on Thursday An MP has called for a councillor to resign after their wife was jailed for calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire.

The wife of a Conservative Party councillor has been jailed for two and half years after posting a tweet stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers on the day of the Southport attacks.

Lucy Connolly, the wife of a Conservative councillor, has been jailed for 31 months after calling online for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.

She then goes on to say that if she were to get arrested she would play the mental health card.” The recorder of Birmingham, Judge Melbourne Inman KC, said Connolly was “well aware how volatile the situation was” when she posted the tweet,

The wife of a Conservative councillor who used Twitter to stir up racial hatred against asylum seekers on the day of the Southport attacks has been jailed for 31 months.