Downing Street responded after Andy Burnham publicly admitted that he would consider launching a bid to become Labour leader
In other developments this morning, a committee of cross-party MPs has warned the UK asylum system is on the brink of collapse as the government fails to cope with severe pressure.
In a report published today, the public accounts committee said the Home Office has focused on short-term fixes and was “at considerable risk of repeating past failures”.
Our report provides an end-to-end snapshot of the entire asylum system, and its findings paint a disturbing picture – at the time of our inquiry, control of it had been all but lost.
The focus on short term, reactive ‘fixes’ has left the government chasing after pressures pushed from one part of the system to the next.
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