THE Home Office’s “cold-hearted” asylum reforms could cost the taxpayer billions of pounds a year, according to a new report. 

While ministers have claimed that measures in the new Nationality and Borders Bill are aimed at cutting costs, calculations by a coalition of campaign groups suggest the taxpayer could be hit with “eyewatering” outgoings. 

According to estimates calculated by the Together with Refugees coalition, five key policies in the Bill could cost £2.7 billion a year.