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Who's Been Telling Lies Again Then.
Rishi Sunak has been slapped down by The official statistics watchdog over his claim that he and his Government had "Cleared" the asylum backlog.Sunak was accused of telling Barefaced lies.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I may be wrong but I understood he claim meant that those on the original backlog list had been either processed, or in the case of difficult decisions, moved to a separate list where they no longer officially counted as part of the backlog. New additions are considered not to count as part of the original backlog.
It's a usual practice. Compare that with pushing the unemployed into training, or encouraging all schooleavers to go to university no matter what course they take, so that they will no longer appear in the unemployment figures.