[ The Home Office’s unsuccessful scramble to meet Rishi Sunak’s pledge to clear an asylum backlog is leading to a new “crisis” with a rapidly expanding mountain of appeals threatening to clog up the tribunal system, i has learnt. Specialist lawyers have said there will not be enough of them to handle the extra cases … Read more
[ Conservative MPs have warned Rishi Sunak the scale of the Channel crisis remains “completely unacceptable” to voters despite small boat crossings dropping by a third. The number of migrants crossing the Channel dropped by 36 per cent in 2023 compared to the previous year, although a Border Force union warned it is likely to … Read more
[ The number of migrants crossing the Channel dropped by a third in 2023 compared to the previous year, but Border Force officials warned it is likely to rise in 2024 as smugglers get hold of “larger boats”. The total number of people recorded as arriving by small boat in 2023 stands at 29,437, provisional … Read more
