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What we do (and don’t) know about ‘illegal migrant’ numbers
A Telegraph article claiming up to one in 12 people in London are “illegal migrants” has grabbed headlines. But estimating how many people are in the UK illegally is inherently …
Have 16,400 ‘failed asylum seekers’ been sent home under Labour?
There have been 16,400 immigration returns since Labour was elected, but the figures we have don’t show how many involved asylum seekers.
Daily Express misstates small boat arrivals data
Small boat arrivals have increased under Labour compared with the same period the previous year, but a figure quoted on the newspaper’s front page isn’t quite right.
