Very good news.
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David Cameron will respond to growing international and domestic demands that Britain take more refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war by announcing that the UK will take in thousands more.
Final details of the numbers, funding and planned location are being urgently thrashed out in Whitehall.
Those selected to come to the UK will be drawn from the UNHCR camps on the border of Syria. It is not expected that the UK will allow the number to be as high as tens of thousands.
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Fulfilling some of our humanitarian obligations and simultaneously minimising economic migrants coming to the UK by abusing the Syrian crisis.
Also gives the message that we will come to those in need, rather than them paying people traffickers.
I don't think anyone can have many complaints about this. We can cope with 10,000 refugees. A far better approach than those our continental European neighbours appear to want to take.