BBC: "Ministers are set to admit they may have significantly underestimated the number of failed asylum seekers living in Britain... Last year the National Audit Office estimated that the figure could be as much as 283,000 - but at the time the Home Office insisted that was too high. Now a trawl of files in the Immigration and Nationality department has produced between 400,000 and 450,000 case files... Home Office sources say that because of poor record keeping, officials are unable to calculate the exact number of failed asylum seekers, but the figure is far higher than previous estimates."
Tim,
Are you suggesting that Labour's failed asylum policy risks turning the entire country into a bunch of rednecks?
Just asking.
Posted by: Simon Chapman | July 19, 2006 at 10:28 AM