Migrants arriving in Dover after crossing the Channel (Image: Getty)
Reform’s Rupert Lowe has led a furious backlash to new figures showing that asylum claims in Britain reached a record high in 2024, surpassing every other year since they began being collected in 2001.
A total of 108,138 people applied for asylum in the UK in 2024, the highest number for any 12-month period since current records began in 2001.
The number is up 18% from 91,811 in 2023, according to figures published by the Home Office.
While the number being allowed to stay has fallen from 63,000 to 39,600, the number being housed in hotels is actually up despite Labour’s pledge to end their use.
A total of 38,079 asylum seekers are now being housed in hotels.
The number of people being officially age checked due to suspicions they are over 18 has also hit a record high of 6,270, while another record was hit as 1,873 migrants claiming to be children were found to be over 18.
Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has also highlighted figures revealing that 87% of migrants claiming asylum in Britain are men.
Mr Lowe blasted: “87%. Not desperate women and children. Men. Mainly young foreign men from alien cultures that share none of our values and hold no respect for women.”
“I do not want them in our country.”
He also condemned the figure showing just 3% of asylum seekers have been deported, branding it “pathetic”.
He added: “Britain is being humiliated.”
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