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CAMPAIGNERS and MPs joined forces yesterday to condemn David Cameron’s shameful and “pathetic” response to the escalating refugee crisis.
A petition demanding the government help men, women and children fleeing war-torn Syria soared past 200,000 signatures last night — more than double the amount needed to secure an emergency Westminster debate.
Yet despite the growing public outrage amid horrific images of the bodies of children as young as three washed up on beaches in Turkey, the Prime Minister is still refusing to take humanitarian action.
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
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
