Britain’s bill for housing asylum seekers will climb to more than £5bn a year by the end of the next parliament as the government’s approach to illegal migration leaves thousands more waiting indefinitely for their case to be handled, according to a report.
Adding to the growing pressure on Rishi Sunak to halt small boat crossings of the Channel, the left-leaning Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank said the prime minister’s new Illegal Migration Act was likely to deepen the crisis in the asylum system.
