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
because to get a good story out of this because migration is probably the biggest because migration is probably the biggest political hot potato in westminster at the moment as 2424 started. westminster at the moment as 2424 started. an westminster at the moment as 2424 started, an election year and clearly started, an election year and clearly the conservative party is keen clearly the conservative party is keen to clearly the conservative party is keen to show that it is on top of migration keen to show that it is on top of migration and making progress on asylum migration and making progress on asylum claims, it all folds into the small asylum claims, it all folds into the small boats issue as well which has been small boats issue as well which has been huge. small boats issue as well which has been huge, the increase the number coming been huge, the increase the number coming across the channel. clearly clearing coming across the channel. clearly clearing t
huge numbers still involved post law change, if you are in opponent you are thinking, these are two good lines of attack, as it were. so if you are the conservative government, why would you want to be talking about an area where it seems to have about an area where it seems to have a pretty big holes in what you are saying? a pretty big holes in what you are sa in: ? , ., a pretty big holes in what you are sa in ? , ., ., a pretty big holes in what you are sa inu? , ., ., saying? first of all as i said i think getting saying? first of all as i said i think getting this saying? first of all as i said i think getting this back - saying? first of all as i said i think getting this back lock l saying? first of all as i said i | think getting this back lock it saying? first of all as i said i - think getting this back lock it down is a political achievement, that is what is a political achievement, that is what the is a political achievement, that is what the government is trying t
correspondent was talking about earlier, a lot of questions but when they witi earlier, a lot of questions but when they will get those back in the next question they will get those back in the next question is they will get those back in the next question is going to be claims after june 2022~ question is going to be claims after june 2022. because asylum rules did change june 2022. because asylum rules did change at june 2022. because asylum rules did change at that point and there is quite change at that point and there is quite a change at that point and there is quite a lot change at that point and there is quite a lot that needs to be gone through there. this isjust one piece through there. this isjust one piece in through there. this isjust one piece in the puzzle of trying to get to a place piece in the puzzle of trying to get to a place on migration where asylum ctaims to a place on migration where asylum claims are to a place on migration where asylum
square behind israel and its approach year, but ultimately that thing approach year, but ultimately that thing about having a humanitarian cease-fire. thing about having a humanitarian cease fire, language the uk is using, cease fire, language the uk is using, lord cameron has push that forward using, lord cameron has push that forward here, language starting having forward here, language starting having wider adoption at the un, i think having wider adoption at the un, i think the having wider adoption at the un, i think the question is going to be, the do think the question is going to be, the do the think the question is going to be, the do the more radical elements of the do the more radical elements of the netanyahu government and pull away if the netanyahu government and pull away if they turn out to be more consolatory elements in terms of the approach consolatory elements in terms of the approach of consolatory elements in terms of the approach of the war.