Priti Patel’s controversial immigration bill will not fix the UK’s “broken” asylum system, the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration has said in a new report.
The review, published yesterday, found there was a “toxic environment” in the Home Office because of pressure to meet targets for deciding on asylum claims. It added that department officials are “instructed to focus on numbers, and not people”.
One official told the inspector that staff were “under pressure to churn decisions out, irrespective of quality”, and this was impacting their ability to empathise with the people they assess.
