More than 100,000 people applied for asylum in the United Kingdom last year, according to official government statistics published on Thursday. A total of 100,625 asylum applications were recorded in 2025. This represents a four per cent decrease compared with 2024, but remains more than double the figure recorded in 2019, the year before the
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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has indicated she is considering “a big increase” in financial incentives for migrants to return voluntarily to their home countries, insisting that the policy represents “value for money”. Currently, the UK offers payments of up to £3,000 for some migrants with no right to remain who agree to return home. Mahmood
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Britain recorded the largest increase in asylum claims across Europe last year, with more than 108,000 people seeking refuge in 2024. The figure represents a 28 per cent rise from the 84,000 claims lodged in 2023 and is the highest since records began in 1979, surpassing the 103,000 claims in 2002. Data from the Organisation
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