Home Office says only half of UK asylum decisions meet its quality standards

Rishi Sunak's push to clear backlog of claims is driving huge increase in legal appeals, costs and harm to applicants

Only half of the Home Office's recent asylum decisions have met its own internal quality checks, significantly fewer than before Rishi Sunak's push to clear a backlog of old claims.

Civil servants and lawyers say errors and omissions are also driving a huge increase in costly legal challenges, with more than 9,300 appeals lodged between this April and June.