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The UK’s Home Office has been reprimanded after the British government was accused of lying about clearing part of its asylum backlog.
UK Statistics Authority chairman Sir Robert Chote said the ‘episode may affect public trust’.
The bill to send some asylum seekers to the African country cleared its main Commons hurdle last night.
Comes after the PM was accused of trying to ‘cook the books’ and a ‘barefaced lie’
Rishi Sunak has been accused of "twisting the facts" after the government announced it had cleared the asylum backlog this month - despite their own stats showing that 4,537 claims still remained. After complaints from opposition MPs, the stats watchdog launched an investigation.