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Home Office 'go home' vans banned over misleading figures

Categories: Articles:Asylum & Refugees | Published: 05/10/2013 | Views: 1090
Advertising watchdog rules that campaign was unlikely to cause widespread offence but used misleading arrest statistics
A government advertising campaign that used billboards on vans to tell illegal immigrants to "go home" has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for using misleading statistics. The campaign, which saw the vans drive around six London boroughs in July this year, drew 224 complaints to the ASA, including some from groups representing migrants in the UK. 'Go home' vans banned because the figures used were misleading, not because they were offensive. But at least they're banned . . . '  Scottish Detainee Visitors.


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