The UK’s asylum trap | The Week

More than a third of the 67,337 asylum applications made in the UK in 2023 came from applicants who had arrived by small boats across the Channel.

The arrival of large numbers of irregular arrivals by boat since 2018 (initially sparked by improved security on travel routes and Covid restrictions) has increased both the overall asylum numbers and the political salience of the issue, particularly among Conservative voters and in “red wall” former Labour seats won by the Tories in 2019. 

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