To fill you in on the financial situation. Last year supporting asylum seekers and refugees cost the UK taxpayer £5.4 billion.

So in the grand scheme of things £15m a day is a lot of money even at a national level. The income tax contribution from the lowest 20% of workers isn’t quite enough to cover this cost.

Obviously this year’s figures aren’t out yet but they are expected to be a little bit below last year’s because Labour have not renewed the hotel contracts the Tories set up, have increased the speed of processing a lot, reduced the evidence needed for a successful claim, have worked with french authorities to reduce people trafficking and are returning people with no legitimate asylum claim (whereas the Tories did nothing).

The cost could be reduced to about half by providing larger more specialised facilities for single, male asylum seekers but that’s seen as a bad thing.