Tories Slammed For Spending Billions More Than Planned On The UK's Asylum System

The Home Office underestimated the cost of running the asylum system to the tune of billions of pounds.

Tory ministers have been condemned for spending billions of pounds more than planned on the UK’s asylum system.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank accused the Home Office of “woeful” budgeting in the years leading up to the general election.

Labour said the findings, in a damning report published on Thursday, vindicated their claims that the last government left a £22 billion black hole in the public finances.