to ferry people across the channel, it is about getting after the money of these people smugglers and it is about working hard both on the uk border and across europe. that is what driven this 36% reduction. at the same time, is that you re seeing an 80% increase. we are a positive outlier because of the actions that we have taken. so this is not about the weather, this is about the work the home office officials have been doing both domestically and with their counterparts across europe. opposition labour party says ministers are manipulating the figures. here s the shadow home secretary yvette cooper. rishi sunak s claim to have cured the asylum backlog isjust totally false. in fact, the figures are nearly 100,000 cases and they haven t even fully cleared the bit of the backlog they were targeting. our political correspondent nick eardley has been working with the bbc verify team and looking at the claims. the big claim from the government today is that it s got rid of the
brighton have missed the opportunity to move up to 6th place in the premier league after a goalless draw at west ham. this eagles had the best of what was a quiet first half. paschal chris with the best of the chances but the visitors with this header. despite 22 shots in total they could not break the deadlock. petrol unlucky after this attempt at score. the draw means brayton have kept a clean sheet for the first time in 24 league games. while west ham remains six after a fourth clean sheet in a row. celtic have gone into the scottish premiership winter break with their 8 point lead at the top of the table intact. they ve beaten st mirren 3 0. they were 2 0 up inside six minutes. japanese international daizen maeda putting them one up after just 54 seconds. soon after, matt o riley doubled celtic s lead. st mirren s were also down to ten men after toyosi olusanya was shown a straight red