Claim: If we "go down the path of comparing asylum backlogs", the Labour party will be "found wanting", and the current backlog bears no comparison with what was left by the Labour party in 2010.
Fact-check: The asylum backlog is far higher now than when Labour left government - Full Fact
Verdict: there were 166,261 people waiting to have their asylum claims decided at the end of december, according to the latest published data, including 160,919 awaiting an initial decision. this is far higher than the total of 18,954 people in june 2010, which included 9,441 awaiting an initial decision.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Sarah Turnnidge
Date published: 2023-03-14T00:00:00