PRITI PATEL was forced to admit today that her own parents would likely have been denied entry to Britain under the government's proposed immigration rules.

The Home Secretary was grilled by Nick Ferrari on his LBC radio show, when he asked: “Your parents, I understand, came from Uganda and were very successful in setting up newsagents. They wouldn’t have qualified would they?”

Struggling to wriggle out of Mr Ferrari’s questioning, Ms Patel appeared to accept that the proposed system would have excluded her parents — although she claimed they would have been allowed in under asylum laws.