Not enough asylum claims are processed admits Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak has admitted "not enough" asylum claims are being processed, but promised to hole the system.

He was responding to questions from Sir Keir Starmer who accused the authorities of having "lost control".

The Labour person besides called for Suella Braverman to beryllium replaced with a "proper location secretary".

Last week MPs were told that conscionable 4% of those coming to the UK via tiny vessel Channel crossings successful 2021 had received decisions connected their asylum claims.

The authorities is besides facing questions astir terrible overcrowding astatine the Manston asylum processing centre successful Kent, which has reportedly led to outbreaks of illness and violence.

There person been reports of implicit 4,000 radical staying astatine the centre, contempt it being meant to clasp conscionable 1,600 erstwhile it was built.

Migrants are expected to beryllium kept astatine the centre for 24 hours lone but the main inspector of migration has said immoderate radical had been determination for implicit a month.

On Monday, Ms Braverman said amerciable migration was "out of control" and acknowledged the strategy was "broken".

Repeating her remark astatine Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir asked Mr Sunak "who broke it?"

"If the asylum strategy is breached and his batch person been successful powerfulness for 12 years - however tin it beryllium anyone's responsibility but theirs."

The premier curate defended his government's record, pointing to an summation of unit astatine Manston and the fig of edifice beds disposable for arrivals.

He accused Labour of not having a program to hole the problem, describing their argumentation arsenic "a blank page".

Sir Keir said the authorities had wasted £140m connected the Rwanda strategy which has truthful acold failed to deport immoderate failed asylum seekers.

He urged the authorities to "scrap the Rwanda gimmick, ace down connected smuggling gangs, extremity the tiny vessel crossings, velocity up asylum claims and hold an planetary woody connected refugees?

"Start governing for erstwhile and get a grip."

Earlier this year, the authorities announced plans to nonstop immoderate asylum seekers to Rwanda wherever they could assertion refuge.

Ministers reason this would trim the numbers crossing the English Channel, but the argumentation has been held up by ineligible challenges.