Not sure it’s a case of just throwing more people at it, the problem appears to be the system and that most individuals that get claims rejected are appealing and clogging up the process. There was an interesting article in the times yesterday about Coopers efforts to accelerate and streamline the appeals process.
‘Appeals by asylum seekers refused sanctuary take an average of 54 weeks to be heard. There were 50,976 outstanding appeals as of March, almost double the number compared with 2024 and seven times higher than in 2023. It is the highest the backlog has been and is on top of the almost 79,000 claims awaiting an initial decision’
So there’s 79k awaiting a decision, let’s assume 50% rejection so another 40k into the appeals systems then adding to that will be the weekly new arrivals. The system just can’t catch up until there’s changes to it. Hopefully that’ll happen soon
Said it before it’s the traffickers backed up by the ECHR lawyers and then the hotels that are making huge amounts from everyone else’s misery and it’s totally unacceptable
Ps I blame a fair bit of this on france, they’ve intentionally been lax and that’s encouraged more traffickers. The bizarre thing is it has probably also attracted more migrants to France as a consequence some of whom will end up staying there