The claim
The UK Government has met its target to clear the legacy backlog in the asylum system.
Original publisher’s rating
Evaluation: Misleading. Data published by the Home Office on January 2 2024, the same day that Mr Sunak posted his remarks, states that the total asylum backlog stood at 98,599 applications as of December 28 2023. It may be that Mr Sunak meant to refer just to “legacy” applications, which is the name given to cases that have been in the system since before June 28 2022. But the Home Office data also states there were 4,537 applications in the legacy backlog as of December 28 2023.
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