Ask Jonathan Gullis MP to stop repeating migration claim without reliable evidence

In the last few months we’ve seen several Conservative MPs repeat the claim—based on an unreliable calculation—that Labour would seek an agreement with the EU that would involve taking “100,000 migrants” a year. Most appear to have stopped repeating the claim after we contacted them, but Deputy Chair Jonathan Gullis MP has continued to repeat the claim time and time again.

We asked Jonathan Gullis not to repeat the 100,000 claim after we noticed him making it on Politics Live last November. Less than two months later, he repeated the claim on GB News, which was then clipped and promoted in his name on a paid-for Facebook advert. He made the claim again on another edition of Politics Live, before repeating it for at least the fifth time last month when he provided a quote for the Express. At Prime Minister’s Questions on 1 May he made the claim yet again.

After we first contacted him about the claim, we’ve written to him on two separate occasions asking him to correct his latest repetitions of the inaccurate claim, but he hasn’t replied.

Each time, we’ve reminded him that the 100,000 figure is not reliable because it relies on a Conservative Party analysis that was based on misunderstandings of the details of an EU scheme that Labour have said they would not sign up to. We’ve also told him that the University of Oxford’s Migration Observatory has found a ‘mathematical error’ in his party’s calculation, but the message doesn’t seem to be getting through.

Will you ask Jonathan Gullis—Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party—to stop repeating this inaccurate claim?