The immigration minister has claimed the UK’s asylum system is “riddled with abuse” while defending government requests that illegal immigrants share hotel rooms.
Robert Jenrick made the comments days after a group of illegal immigrants protested outside a London hotel over cramped hotel conditions.
Speaking on BBC’s “Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg” programme, Jenrick revealed there was now a backlog of more than 150,000 asylum cases, and said the system needed to be changed “fundamentally.”
“The asylum system is riddled with abuse, we have to be honest with ourselves,” he told the programme.
“The way to tackle that is by changing fundamentally the way we handle asylum.”…