LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged on Monday to take in up to 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years, responding to public clamor for his government to help those fleeing civil war in the country.
"We are proposing that Britain should resettle up to 20,000 Syrian refuges over the rest of this parliament. In doing so, we will continue to show the world that this country is a country of extraordinary compassion," he told parliament.
Cameron has been under pressure from the media and his European counterparts to take in far more refugees to help with the wider migrant crisis, which has seen hundreds of thousand of people arrive in mainland Europe.
Even British newspapers generally hostile to increased migration last week called on Cameron to let in more refugees after featuring pictures of a drowned Syrian toddler washed up on a Turkish beach on their front pages. ...
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