GETTY Stefan Lofven pledged to change Sweden’s liberal attitudes to immigratio

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During 2015 alone, Sweden received more than 160,000 asylum applications, resulting in the country closing its internal borders in an attempt to stagger the levels of migration into the country. And more than 3,000 migrants are still living illegally in the Swedish capital alone.

But now Stefan Löfven has pledged to change Sweden’s liberal attitudes to immigration, and insisted the massive influx would never be allowed to happen again. It comes after migrant Rakhmat Akilov from Uzbekistan drove a stolen 30-tonne truck into pedestrians at a busy department store in Stockholm on Friday. STOCKHOLM TERROR SUSPECT NAMED AS OFFICIALS REVEALED THEY TRIED TO DEPORT HIM IN 2014

REUTERS Four people were killed in the Stockholm attack on Friday

REUTERS At lest 15 were injured when the truck ploughed into the department store

Four were killed, including Britton and father-of-two Chris Bevinton, and 15 injured in the harrowing attack, which showed clear similarities to the London terror attack last month. Akilov is believed to have carried out a reconnaissance of his route just days earlier. The failed asylum seeker had been given four weeks to leave Sweden in December after his final appeal failed. But he managed to evade detection simply by giving the authorities a fake address. Now Mr Löfven has pledged to crackdown on illegal immigration - vowing to deport migrants who’s asylum applications fail immediately.

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Speaking at the Social Democrats party conference in Gothenburg on Sunday, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said: "The situation in autumn 2015 was unsustainable. We must stand up for the right of asylum but if we don't handle this situation so that people feel safe we will end up in a situation where people do not want to receive refugees at all. "The immigration legislation we had in autumn 2015 (was the result of the previous government)." He said the Swedish government bit off more than it could chew, and "we cannot make the same mistake again". The fact the terror suspect should have been deported made the Prime Minister "frustrated".

GETTY Sweden opened their borders to migrants at first

REUTERS Rakhmat Akilov from Uzbekistan drove a stolen 30-tonne truck into pedestrians

He added: "If you are rejected you have to return home - otherwise we have no orderly migration. "We need to improve the ability to deport in an orderly way." Akilov, 39, had previously expressed support for Islamic State - telling police he carried out the attack on their orders.

GETTY Swden had to close its borders to prevent illegal immigration