One of the challenges facing Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour government is reforming a costly and dysfunctional asylum system. Rob McNeil, deputy director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, spoke to FRANCE 24 on the new government’s possible next steps to address record levels of irregular migration and a growing backlog of asylum claims.
Britain’s Labour Party officially came to power on Friday after 14 years in opposition. Now that it has the reins of government, Labour will have to pick up the pieces of a broken asylum system, including the Conservative Party’s controversial Rwanda policy.
