Britain is to respond to the refugee crisis facing Europe by taking 20,000 refugees from the camps on the borders of Syria over the next five years, David Cameron has announced. Cameron told the House of Commons the UK would “live up to its moral responsibility” towards people forced from their homes by the forces of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and the Islamic State terror group. The prime minister said the refugees would not immediately be granted full asylum status, giving them a right to settle, but instead a humanitarian status that will allow them to apply for asylum at the end of five years. Critics said the number, when spread over five years, was not as impressive as it first sounded. Paddy Ashdown, the former Liberal Demcrat leader, called it “derisory” in an article for the Guardian. In the Lords, Ashdown also condemned the policy of deporting refugee children when they are 18, if they are not granted asylum. But a government spokesperson said: “This is not true. As the PM outlined in the House, all Syrian refugees being resettled through the scheme will be granted a five-year protection visa. At the end of this period, they can… Read full this story
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