BBCNEWS BBC News at One June 4, 2024 13:10:00
The backlog is false. the figures are nearly 100,000 cases and they haven't even fully cleared the bit of the backlog they were targeting. with the number of small boats arriving down by more than a third last year compared with 2022, and a much improved processing rate for asylum cases, the government is claiming progress on immigration control but its critics argue the figures have been massaged and are far from a pledge delivered, the statistics show a promise broken. mark easton, bbc news. let's get more analysis of those figures. 0ur chief political correspondent henry zeffman is with me ...
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