Asylum backlog: 'Salami slicing data' from Conservatives, says Labour

Shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones has questioned the government's claim they have cleared the backlog of asylum cases.

He told Sky's Kay Burley he thinks this is the "start of what we're going to see a lot of this year from the Conservatives which is salami slicing data".

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged in December 2022 that he would "abolish" the legacy backlog of asylum claims made before 28 June of that year, with the Home Office being given the target of the end of 2023.

On Monday, the department said the pledge had been "delivered", having processed more than 112,000 asylum claims overall in 2023.

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