Rishi Sunak has been accused of abandoning control of UK borders and faces a backlash from Conservative MPs after net migration and the backlog of asylum claims reached record highs, it emerged on Thursday.
The prime minister was forced to concede that the numbers should come down after figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that overall migration into the UK for 2022 was 606,000, which represents a 24% increase on the previous high of 488,000 last year.
