Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers are living in the UK in a ‘twilight zone’ of extreme poverty, no housing and no right to work. A report from the refugee charity Pafras says on average failed asylum seekers were surviving on £7.65 per week, but the majority lived on less than £5. The charity called the destitution a ‘deliberate’ policy to force asylum seekers out of the country. As many as 72 per cent of failed asylum seekers had spent time sleeping rough outside following their asylum refusal.
