Small boat crossings drop to seven-year summer low
Shabana Mahmood has said Labour's work is "beginning to bear fruit."
Shabana Mahmood has said Labour's work is "beginning to bear fruit."
The asylum case backlog has also fallen dramatically and the number of asylum claims has dropped.
Migration numbers are down. Asylum hotel numbers are down. Yet the anti-immigration crowd are still spitting feathers.
The number of people claiming asylum is down 12% and he number of asylum seekers in hotels is down by a third.
Take a moment to look past the Westminster psychodrama and Reform stunts and you'll see an emerging picture of a government getting on with the job.
And the worst thing is - people will probably believe it.
Small boat crossings were also at their lowest level since 2023.
The Office for National Statistics has issued updated figures.
"5% of migration is small boats but it covers about 95% of the coverage we hear about."
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