A record number of asylum seekers claiming to be gay have been allowed to stay in Britain under ECHR rules. The number of asylum seekers granted leave to stay in Britain based on their sexual orientation rose to 2,133 last year, up from 762 in 2022 and 677 in the year before that. The Home Office granted the claims to stay after those seeking asylum proved that returning to their homeland would be inhumane because of their sexuality. The UK has accepted that people who would be criminalised or open to persecution because of their sexual orientation can claim asylum under the European Convention on Human Rights.