Home Office insider laughs off claim 'only 1 in 100 asylum seekers are genuine'

A Home Office insider told The National that a second Home Office insider's claims were an 'exaggeration' (Image: Archive)

A HOME Office insider’s claims that just one in 100 asylum claims are genuine is an “exaggeration” that must have come from a “human lie detector”, according to a second Home Office insider.

On Monday, The Times led its front page with the opinion of a single Home Office worker who alleged that “at best 1 per cent of asylum seekers are genuine”.