Home Secretary to introduce fast-track scheme to tackle asylum backlog in ‘major overhaul’ of appeal process

“We need a major overhaul of the appeal [process] and that’s what we are going to do in the autumn… If we speed up the decision-making appeal system and also then keep increasing returns, we hope to be able to make quite a big reduction in the overall numbers in the asylum system, because that is the best way to actually restore order and control,” Ms Cooper told The Sunday Times.