The quarterly immigration statistics landed at 9.30am on Thursday and do not make for pleasurable reading for Keir Starmer and his team of ministers.

Landing with unerring timing just days after the high court ordered the Home Office to remove asylum seekers from a hotel in Epping, Essex, the latest figures show the scale of the task facing the Prime Minister after his first year in office.

Here, The i Paper has focused on four sets of data that spell danger for Starmer and his hopes of getting a grip on the small boats crisis.

Asylum claims

According to the official Home Office data, the number of people claiming asylum in the UK reached a record 111,084 during the Prime Minister’s first year in government.

This represents a 14 per cent rise from the 97,107 who arrived in the y

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