Labour says record high asylum backlog figures show system in ‘complete chaos’ – UK politics live

Number of people waiting for initial decision on asylum applications at end of June 2023 reached 175,457, according to Home Office figuresAlbania was the country providing most asylum applications in the year ending in June 2023, the Home Office figures show.As PA Media reports, there were 11,790 applications by Albanian nationals in that 12-month period, 7,557 of which came from arrivals on boats crossing the English Channel. PA says:The number of Albanian small boat arrivals peaked during the