This is a great discussion! It has prompted me to do some more reading.
This UNHCR report is interesting - the UK is the 5th largest recipient of asylum seekers after USA, Germany, France and Sweden. We don't even feature in the top 10 per capita recipients of asylum seekers! It seems like we take less than 10% of the total European asylum seekers.
I knew suspected the press and certain political parties were 'bigging' up the figures but I didn't realise by how much