Plan to overhaul asylum appeals

PROTESTS have continued over the use of hotels to house asylum seekers as the Government set out plans for a fast-track appeals process to speed up the removal of people with no right to be in the UK.

- DAVID HUGHES Press Association

Ministers hope the overhaul of the asylum appeal process will make it easier to get people out of hotels and on planes out of the UK.

After protests on Saturday at locations across the UK which resulted in at least 15 arrests, demonstrations continued on Sunday.

Official figures released earlier this month showed a total of 111,084 people applied for asylum in the UK in the year to June 2025, the highest number for any 12-month period since current records began in 2001.

The record level of applications comes as the backlog of people waiting for an initial decision on their claims dropped to 90,812 at the end of June.