A National Audit Office report into the asylum system has found that its total cost to the taxpayer this year is a whopping £4.9 billion. That’s the NAO’s calculation of actual costs to the Home Office and MoJ…
The Farm Tax is estimated by the Treasury to raise £500 million in its most revenue-raising year. Until then it is raking in just over £100 million. In that case the asylum system costs fifty farm taxes…
The NAO report, released overnight, found the Home Office does not know how many people have slipped out of the asylum system and are in the UK illegally. It noted the number of people seeking asylum represented around 11.4% of overall immigration to the UK in 2024…
It tracked 5,000 asylum claims from January 2023 for 32 months. By September this year only 452 of the total, or 9% had been deported, which is 18% of all rejected asylum seekers. The rest are stuck in the system…
Fewer than 35% were granted asylum and 56% of cases weren’t concluded. In the years since numbers have got worse – record 110,051 asylum claims were filed in the year to September. Smash the records, Keir…
Lucy Powell on LBC, asked by Tom Swarbrick for her reaction to Labour MP Samantha Niblett’s call for a ‘summer of sex’ debate in Parliament: “I personally don’t own any sex toys, but each to their own… I’m not really sure that’s the right place for it, no.”