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Dec 19, 2025 • via The Spectator

Migration Advisory Committee buries mass migration's economic pretensions

£25bn lifetime asylum cost from 2024 grants alone

MAC report reveals asylum and partner visas impose massive lifetime fiscal deficits on UK taxpayers, unmasked by short-term modelling flaws across governments. Net migration policy drains resources amid welfare explosion.

Dec 9, 2025 • via The Telegraph

Asylum Granted on Paper Promises

Questionnaires replace interviews amid 110,000 claims and £2.1bn costs

Home Office skips face-to-face scrutiny for high-grant asylum claims, clearing backlogs on self-reported evidence despite caseworker warnings of fraud risks. Cross-party shortcuts sustain inflows and taxpayer burdens.