Suella Braverman’s claims on asylum seekers and migration from her US speech, fact-checked

, Nick Timothy, and Karl Williams of the Centre for Policy Studies – a conservative think-tank that has previously called for “tough new policies to stop illegal Channel crossings”.

fleeing to other countries account for 35.3 million people while just over five million people globally are asylum seekers, the UN said. The researchers behind the poll found that desire to migrate rose to decade-high levels in regions that are already well-known for sending migrants abroad: Latin America and the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, plus South East and South Asia.

Claim: “The cost of the UK asylum system has roughly doubled in the last year and now stands at nearly £4bn. A decade ago [it] was around £500m.”According to Government statistics, the total cost of the asylum system to the taxpayer in 2022-23 was £3.97bn – up from £2.12bn in 2021-22. In 2010-11, the cost of processing applications was £567,856,116.

The researchers’ conclusion also found recent immigrants are 43 per cent less likely to receive state benefits or tax credits and come from a strong educational background.

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