As the PM continues to promise to bewitch at least one more refugee than Yvette Cooper suggests,the only real Tory cheers came when Jeremy Corbyn stood upEven for a prime minister accustomed to labile policymaking – ”It’s Monday and now for something completely different” – the past few weeks beget proved somewhat challenging for David Cameron. Less than a month ago he was fortunately referring to refugees from the Middle East as a swarm; since the devastating front-page picture of a drowned child washed up on a Turkish beach, the prime minister has been backtracking so fast he was also in danger of drowning. In his own milk of human kindness. “Heads and hearts, and he improvised. The worse the media reports,the greater the number of refugees he promised the UK would bewitch.
By Monday morning Cameron had said Britain would bewitch between 10000 and 15000 refugees, so there was eager anticipation in the chamber when he came to make his statement on the refugee crisis and the security situation in Syria to see whether Dave would travel any higher.
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Source: theguardian.com