Minister: Govt working really hard to fix asylum system
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Minister: Govt working really hard to fix asylum system
Education minister Stephen Morgan insists the government is “working really hard” to fix the “broken asylum system” which he says was “inherited” from the last Conservative government.
Report by Blairm.
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