Home Secretary Priti Patel misled MPs yesterday while discussing her post-Brexit immigration plan, it has been revealed.

Patel gave a statement to the House of Commons about the government’s barely coherent immigration proposals. During this statement, she claimed that far more EU citizens have been granted settled status in the UK than is actually the case.

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The Home Secretary said: “2.8 million people have been granted settled status, and there have been over 3 million applications so far.”

However, as pointed out by Alan Travis of the Guardian, of the 2.8 million people who have been processed by the Home Office, 1.1 million have actually been granted “pre-settled status”.

This is an inferior, temporary status for EU citizens that means they must reapply for the full, permanent right to remain at a later date. If they are rejected, they will be asked to leave the country of face deportation.

Travis pointed out the contrast between this policy and the promise of the Vote Leave campaign.

The official Brexit campaign said during the referendum campaign that there “will be no change for EU citizens already lawfully resident in the UK. These EU citizens will automatically be granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK and will be treated no less favourably than they are at present.”

Someone should remind Priti Patel.

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