UK asylum system ‘riddled with abuse’, says immigration minister

Robert Jenrick adds immigration-reduction targets unhelpful as he deflects questions on Albania deal

The immigration minister, Robert Jenrick, has said Britain’s asylum system is “riddled with abuse” and that targets to reduce net immigration are not “particularly helpful”, despite previous pledges in successive Conservative election manifestos.

Jenrick also deflected questions on Sunday about how many people had been removed from the UK under a “gold standard” UK-Albanian deal, which targets people arriving illegally from Albania mainly by crossing the Channel.

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