Yesterday the Daily Mail ran this front page. Today they admitted it was completely wrong

The Daily Mail has issued a correction for a front page story in which it claimed a "lorry load of migrants" had arrived in Britain from Europe.

The story explained:

SQUEEZED in among storage boxes, another lorry load of migrants sneak into Britain.

The 11 stowaways - three of them children - were intercepted by police in east London yesterday.

Asked where they were from, they replied: 'Europe.'

It then segued into an anti-EU line on the referendum campaign:

The dramatic pictures emerged as the Tories were accused of being in referendum chaos over border controls.

George Osborne insisted there would be no change to European Union rules on freedom of movement.

After the Home Office pointed out that the group of 11 in the back of the Italian lorry were from the Middle East the online version of the story has now been updated to read:

Asked where they were from, they replied: 'Iraq' and 'Kuwait'.

On Friday, the paper added a clarification at the bottom of page 2:

It reads:

IN common with other newspapers, we published a reputable news agency's story yesterday which said that stowaways intercepted in east London had told police that they were 'from Europe'. In fact, while they had travelled to the UK in an Italian vehicle from mainland Europe, the migrants told police they were from Iraq and Kuwait.

We wonder what confused them? Because it surely couldn't have been the video on the Mail's own website where they man clearly says "we're from Iraq"...

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