We are being misled by a PM desperate to sell a wicked policy. Rwanda, per head, hosts five times more refugees than the UK, says Joshua Surtees, formerly of UNHCR
with Rwanda, the UK boasts of having taken in 25,000 Syrian refugees, as a way of demonstrating its “long proud history of providing protection to those who need it”. This claim is laughable. More than 6 million Syrians have fled their country in the 11 years since war began. For much of the crisis, Lebanon hosted 2 million Syrians – representing a third of Lebanon’s 6 million population.
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