I’ve asked the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to correct the record – in line with the Ministerial Code – after the statistics regulator ruled that the asylum backlog had increased by 147,000 since 2010 (not ‘halved’ as PM claimed!)
Under the Tories it is 8x higher than under the last Labour Government, at 166,000 today.
Read more below :
Watchdog rebukes Rishi Sunak for misleading asylum backlog claim (thetimes.co.uk)