‘Stop the Boasts! I''ve got lots to get on with!’ - Sunak’s bottled it with an eye-wateringly, grimace-inducing start to the New Year

Rishi Sunak got off to a blistering start in 2024 by announcing on X/Twitter last week that the asylum backlog had been ‘cleared’. 

There was just one problem: it hadn’t. 

And many [many!] people were quick to point out that it hadn’t.