Why are asylum claims at the highest level in over 20 years?
This Is Why
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🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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The data also reveals that the number of asylum seekers in hotels has gone up, but that the asylum backlog has gone down. Small boat crossings were up on last year but down on 2022.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to our data and forensics correspondent Tom Cheshire to find out what we learnt from today's figures.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 1:06.3 | Asylum applications are up, to a record high, in fact. |
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