https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68435629

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The UK's asylum backlog is falling, new figures show, driven by an increase in decisions being made.

Figures show that the Home Office made 74,172 initial decisions on asylum applications during 2023, nearly four times the number made in 2022.

Two-thirds of the asylum decisions were positive, a slightly lower rate than in the previous two years.

But the total number of people granted humanitarian protection hit a new record.

Some 62,336 people were issued refugee status or other protection, the highest figure since records began and double that seen the previous year.

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All goes to show that the backlog was ideologically engineered by tory bigots, that most applicants are legitimate and entitled to their claim, that stopping the small boats is a hyped policy solely intended to appeal to hard right fascists, and deportations to Rwanda really aren't needed, is a waste of time and money..

Who would have thought it !