"As the prime minister has said, we intend to resettle 1,000 Syrians through our expanded Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement (VPR) by Christmas and we have already welcomed and successfully resettled a number of vulnerable people who were in desperate need of our help," he said in a statement.
As the Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, has rightly argued, the UK government should also reconsider its decision to opt out of EU proposals to resettle a small number of the asylum seekers currently on EU territory.
"Resettle a small number of the most vulnerable refugees".
Under the secretive agreement, Cambodia will resettle an unspecified number of refugees currently held in an Australian-run detention centre on the Pacific island of Nauru.
In the wake of Monday's defeat of a Lords amendment that proposed bringing 3,000 lone child refugees into the UK, MPs will be asked to consider a new version demanding that Britain resettle an unspecified number of unaccompanied refugee children currently living elsewhere in Europe.
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In exchange, the EU would resettle an equivalent number of refugees from Turkey, as well as give Turkey $6.8 billion in financial aid and potential visa-free travel for its citizens.
Instead of focusing on whitewashing Turkey's behaviour, and indeed stimulating it, Europe should focus on its own responsibility and start resettling a serious number of refugees from Turkey".
"He was a man of grand vision who wanted to resettle a much larger number of refugees from Germany" and elsewhere, the editors conclude, citing a directive from Washington in June 1938 indicating that officials should deal with "the problems of refugees from all countries".
Speaking before the summit, May argued it was better to help a greater number of refugees at camps in countries bordering Syria than to resettle a smaller number in the UK.
