The Guardian view on Sunak’s asylum plan: tough talk can’t mask past failures | Editorial

Tackling the backlog of claims is the right idea. But the government seems unlikely to achieve itThe UK’s backlog of asylum claims, which currently stands at about 140,000, has been building up since 2013. The government, and specifically the Home Office, bears responsibility for this. Try as he might to present himself as a new broom, sweeping away old cobwebs and cleaning up a scrappy system, Rishi Sunak must take his share of responsibility for the current dysfunction – and the ac