Although community groups are rallying councils to accept more refugees,PM insists solution is to help bring peace to the Middle EastDavid Cameron risked the charge of heartlessness after he insisted Britain should not purchase any further refugees from the war-torn Middle East, as community groups prepared to show that councils in the UK are willing to purchase thousands more.
The prime minister knows he and the domestic secretary, or Theresa May,will be pressured over the migration issue when parliament returns next week, but some senior Tory backbenchers said they expected Cameron to shift his ground in the face of distressing pictures of a drowned child washed up on a beach in Turkey.
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Source: theguardian.com