Asylum Tax Bill at Record High

Britain’s asylum immigration crisis continues to worsen. Figures just released show that spending on asylum rose by £1.43bn in the 2023/24 financial year to £5.38bn - 36% higher than in 2022/24 when £3.95bn was spent.

The shocking figure covers the Conservatives' final year in government and is the highest amount since comparable data began in 2010/11.

It is more than four times the equivalent figure for 2020/21 (£1.34bn) and nearly 12 times the total a decade ago in 2013/14 when it was £450m.

But if you think that’s bad, wait until we get the figures for Labour’s first year in office, because they’re going to be even worse!

Since Labour came into power, 19,988 people have crossed the Channel on small boats to get to the UK illegally. Huge numbers of those migrants arriving ‘legally’ – for example on visitors’ or student visas – also go on to claim asylum.

Home Office data has also revealed 106,181 asylum claimants were in accommodation at the end of September. That is an increase of 9,539 from May this year. New data has also found the number of asylum claimants living in hotels has increased since Labour came into power in July.

Of those 106,181 asylum seekers, 35,651 were being housed temporarily in hotels due to lack of other accommodation at the end of September, up by 6,066 from 29,585 at the end of June.

Labour promised to close asylum hotels in their manifesto, but border security minister Dame Angela Eagle last week said more asylum hotels have opened since the party came into power.

She told parliament there are currently 220 hotels in use for asylum seekers, with seven having shut since July - but 14 more have opened.

The Home Office taxpayer-funded costs cover all its spending on asylum, including direct cash support and accommodation for asylum seekers, plus wider staffing and other related migration and border activity.

But the £5.38 Billion cost does not include the price of operations responding to Channel crossings and picking migrants in the Channel to ferry them over to England.

Meanwhile, shivering pensioners and endangered farmers are only the highest profile victims of the brutal spending cuts being imposed by the Starmer regime, and Labour’s tax increases are already squeezing the life out of the economy.

How much worse will it have to get before public patience finally snaps completely? We’re going to find out, as it can only be a matter of time.