UK Statistics Authority Rebukes Sunak Over Claim Backlog ‘Cleared’

The head of the UK Statistics Authority has just issued his less-than-positive conclusion on Sunak’s previous claim that the asylum backlog had been “cleared” when over 4,537 “legacy” cases still remained outstanding. Sunak last got a ticking off when he claimed debt was falling…

UKSA chairman Sir Robert Chote says in his conclusion that the “average member of the public is likely to interpret a claim to have ‘cleared a backlog’ – especially when presented without context on social media – as meaning that it has been eliminated entirely“.[…] Read the rest