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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dave Burke

Rishi Sunak could face ANOTHER probe - this time over 'misleading' asylum data

Rishi Sunak could face ANOTHER Parliamentary probe - this time over his use of “entirely misleading” immigration figures.

The PM, who is already being investigated over failure to tell MPs about his wife’s financial interests, has been rapped by the UK statistics watchdog after wrongly claiming the asylum backlog is half what it was when Labour was in office.

But despite the UK Statistics Authority saying in March that it is in fact EIGHT TIMES higher now, Mr Sunak has yet to correct the record.

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