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Home Secretary Theresa May agreed to admit a few hundred Syrian refugees yesterday amid allegations that Britain is snubbing a bigger UN-backed scheme.
Ms May told MPs that Britain's scheme would focus on giving refuge to survivors of torture and violence, women and children in need of medical care and victims of sexual violence.
She said "several hundred" refugees would be admitted under the new programme, in addition to nearly 3,500 Syrian asylum-seekers who were already in Britain.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE