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Questions are being raised over whether the alleged Belfast attacker had his asylum claim fast-tracked under the last Conservative government in a streamlined process to reduce the vast asylum backlog by speeding up claims from countries like Sudan.
But new data suggests the political headache around asylum isn’t just about approvals but also what happens when applications are refused. Labour points out the asylum backlog has come down on its watch, but to what extent are people just being moved around the system?
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