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BBC News - Brown admits 'misusing' immigration statistics

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been forced to admit he misused immigration figures after being criticised by the statistics watchdog.

In a podcast on Friday, Mr Brown said net migration into the UK fell from 237,000 in 2007 to 163,000 in 2008 and provisionally 147,000 in 2009.

But the head of UK Statistics Authority agreed with a Tory complaint that he had made inaccurate comparisons.

Downing Street said it accepted the statistics had been "unclear".

But it insisted that Mr Brown had since corrected them.



Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Mar 31st, 2010 at 01:35:30 PM EST
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 1 April | 94 comments (94 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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