‘Triple number of refugees here’
BRITAIN needs to accept more than triple the number of Syrian refugee families, a leading aid agency claims.
Every constituency could rehome 24 people from the war-torn nation every year, says The International Rescue Committee, led by ex-Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
Only seven Syrians per constituency are allowed to settle here at present. Richard Pyle, of the IRC said: “The number pledged is very small.” He said they were calling for “just 17 more people a year in each constituency”.
More than 11 million Syrians have been displaced in the war – half its 2011 population.