Priti Patel has been accused by a senior Conservative MP of misleading the House of Commons to exaggerate government help offered to Ukrainian refugees as the government came under pressure from its own MPs to ease visa restrictions immediately.
The allegation, which the MP said would usually be a resigning matter, was made as Tory colleagues queued up in parliament to condemn the Home Office for “dragging its feet” over visa applications for those escaping the Russian armed forces.
