Only one in 100 asylum seekers are genuine – with many migrants using ‘the same script’, a former Home Office insider has claimed.

The whistleblower, who worked for years assessing thousands of claims, said the entire process had been abused and turned into ‘a massive fraud’.

He revealed how ‘hundreds’ of Iraqi Kurds were petitioning to stay in the UK – because they were all in a relationship with the same daughter of the Kurdish prime minister.

Read more: Just one in 100 asylum claims are true – and migrants use ‘the same script’, Home Office whistleblower says