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It’s not true that 50% of child asylum seekers turn out to be adults
Reform UK party leader Richard Tice wrongly claimed in a social media post that 50% of children seeking asylum were found to be adults.
Conservative estimate that UK would take 100,000 migrants a year under Labour plan is not reliable
It’s not clear how many more migrants might come as a result of any future returns agreement with the EU, but the 100,000 figure is based on a number of …
More than 37% of Croydon’s population is British
The last census suggests that over 80% of Croydon’s residents have a British identity.
