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Will Durrant

Review into in-country asylum applications under way, Yvette Cooper confirms

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

A review into in-country asylum applications is under way, the Home Secretary has confirmed, as another MP offered to drive a constituent to the airport himself to face deportation.

Yvette Cooper told the Commons on Monday her Government is looking at the way asylum seekers make applications within the UK, after having already changed visa requirements for visitors from Colombia and Jordan earlier this year.

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