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
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