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October 7, 2016updated 10 Oct 2016 7:29am

Daily Mail breached Editors’ Code with inaccurate WE’RE FROM EUROPE – LET US IN! front page

By Dominic Ponsford

The Daily Mail breached the Editors’ Code with a front-page story published a week before the EU referendum vote which was headlined: “We’re from Europe, let us in”.

This was the ruling of the Independent Press Standards Organisation which took no action against the newspaper because it said the inaccurate headline had already been corrected (on page 2 of the following day’s paper).

The full Daily Mail headline read: “We’re from Europe – let us in! As politicians squabble over border controls, yet another lorry load of migrants arrives in the UK.”

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