Watchdog rebukes Government over claim asylum backlog had been 'cleared'

"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, so it is not surprising that the Government's claim has been greeted with scepticism and that some people may feel misled when these 'hard cases' remain in the official estimates of the legacy backlog."

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