_at the end of August more than 51,000 asylum seekers were being housed in hotels, costing around £6m per day, while the full bill for the accommodation in the last financial year was £2.28bn.
The backlog of asylum claims in the UK hit a record high in the same month, with a total of 175,457 people waiting for an initial decision on their claim._
It’s going to take a hell of a lot of infrastructure spending to process that lot. Better to stop them risking their lives by coming in the first place, surely. They’ve all got here via the EU remember. They’ve traveled through tolerant countries to get here.
