Labour’s asylum crisis is intensifying with more migrants living in hotels and a growing number of protection claims, shocking figures reveal.

Some 36,273 are staying in taxpayer-funded rooms, a 13% rise compared to June’s figure of 32,041.

And a record number of asylum claims – 110,051 in the year to September – is heaping more pressure on the crumbling system.

This has been fuelled by a sharp rise in Channel migrant crossings and a surge in foreign nationals applying for refuge after arriving on a work, study or visitor visa.

Experts from Oxford University’s Migration Observatory said asylum made up 44% of net migration in the year to June. The true figure will be even higher as asylum claims have increased, whilst net migration has fallen, in the subsequent three months.

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