The BBC's coverage was maddening but the fault lies squarely with Mahmood. She gave government authority to a wholly misleading statistic & is now being battered with it. Governments have to talk more honestly to the public about migration, not keep bricking themselves in with fantasy & falsehood.

Indeed. As I wrote here, "Truss did not fall into No. 10 from a spaceship like some twin-set Mr Bean". She was the flagbearer for a whole ecosystem of thinktanks, columnists & newspapers, who find it easier to treat her as an aberration than to accept their own culpability unherd.com/2023/01/liz-...