The new record comes as Home Secretary Priti Patel is set to finally introduce legislation to fix the UK’s “broken” immigration system. Part of the New Plan for Immigration will reportedly introduce a new legal route for the British government to export asylum seekers to third countries — possibly in partnership with the Kingdom of Denmark — rather than processing their asylum applications domestically in the UK. The proposal has been met with anger from the political left and scepticism from the right, with Nigel Farage declaring that an offshore migrant centre “will never happen”.