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