Tory ministers including Rishi Sunak used misleading figures in Parliament about asylum backlogs, a statistics watchdog has said.
The UK Statistics Authority has written to the government after Mr Sunak claimed in December that the current backlog is half what it was when Labour was in office.
Sir Robert Chote, who heads the authority, said remarks by the Prime Minister and Tory frontbenchers Sarah Dines and Robert Jenrick "do not reflect" Home Office figures.
