Claim: Labour plans to do a deal with the EU that could see the UK accepting around 100,000 of Europe's asylum seekers.
Fact-check: Rishi Sunak's Conservative party conference speech: fact checked - Full Fact
Verdict: this figure is a conservative party estimate which is not reliable. it makes several assumptions and appears to misinterpret a recent eu agreement on relocating asylum seekers, which labour has since said it wouldn't join. we don't know how many migrants the uk might take under a future returns deal with the eu—labour has not said what such a deal would involve, or how many migrants it would accept.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Nasim Asl;Hannah Smith;Tony Thompson
Date published: 2023-10-04T00:00:00