PM Rejects Calls To Take 3,000 Migrant Children
David Cameron has rejected calls to take in refugee children who have become separated from their parents and travelled to Europe. A Downing Street adviser told Sky News they did not want to create "a magnet" to attract more migrants to cross the Mediterranean.
However, Britain has offered to resettle more vulnerable children from refugee camps near Syria and offer some assistance to migrant children in Europe.
In a somewhat confusing announcement, the Government said a new initiative was being launched to help unaccompanied children in countries surrounding Syria who would be better off in the UK because their "needs cannot be met in the region".
Immigration Minister James Brokenshire said the UK would work with the United Nations refugee agency - the UNHCR - to identify ...