Business | Money The Government’s insistence that the backlog of older asylum claims has been cleared when official figures show thousands of cases remain outstanding has kicked off the first of many cycles of claim and counterclaim that will intensify during what is likely to be an election year. It is the first anniversary of a speech by Rishi Sunak in which he set out his five pledges and called on the public “to hold my Government and I to account on delivering those goals”. These priorities, laid out two months after Mr Sunak entered No 10, are set to be the focus of fierce debate and scrutiny in the coming months. The Prime…
