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Britain / 28 January 2016
PM brands Syrian exiles ‘bunch of migrants’
Holocaust Memorial Day insult ‘dehumanises refugees to score political point’
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CRASS David Cameron came under fire yesterday for branding families fleeing Syria’s civil war a “bunch of migrants.”

The Prime Minister was accused of “dehumanising” people caught up in a humanitarian crisis in order to score political points.

Campaigners and MPs said the fact that the comments came on Holocaust Memorial Day made them even more inappropriate.

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