More than 30,000 UK asylum seekers on bail under Rwanda deportation threat

Home Office reveals 33,085 will not have claims examined while government tries to remove them

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More than 30,000 asylum seekers are on bail and under the threat of deportation to Rwanda, the Home Office has disclosed, as James Cleverly insisted that the total backlog of 94,000 cases should instead be referred to as a queue.

A senior official has admitted for the first time that 33,085 people who arrived in the UK by irregular means such as small boats will not have their asylum claims examined while the government attempts to remove them from the UK.