Justine Greening MP: Our aid strategy is about tackling the root causes of migration
We are working to help the vast majority of refugees who are still in the countries around Syria, where they want to stay.
We are working to help the vast majority of refugees who are still in the countries around Syria, where they want to stay.
Finally, we must be prepared to tackle the fundamental cause of the instability wreaking havoc in the Middle East. ISIS needs to be destroyed.
The latest social action project undertaken by the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists.
For every safe home we make for our refugee neighbours, we could build up to another two or more homes to meet current domestic need, across all tenures.
If Corbyn wins, Downing Street and the Treasury will seek to act move quickly on many fronts while the opposition is weak.
Tories are at their weakest when they appear short on empathy and seem to limit that vaunted freedom to flourish to a privileged few.
If controlling our growth involves a rupture with the EU over the ‘freedom of movement issue’, then – in my view – that is a price which must be paid.
The Government must be prepared to stand up for its policies and keep its eyes fixed on what voters really think, not be blown off course by hot air from the media.
How many? Where will they come from? How will they be selected? How will they be funded? What will they be entitled to?
“What we’re going to do is make sure that people don’t have to make that terrible journey, using people smugglers, to Europe. So we’ll be resettling people directly from the refugee camps.”
An increase in refugees should be mirrored by a reduction in other migration. This won’t happen – and the Government is showing that it buckles under pressure.
I’m not embarrassed to say that when I saw that picture of the four year old boy who drowned and was washed up on a Turkish beach I shed a tear.
There are people in Brussels who will want to drive a proposal so that the institutions here can grab more power, gain more profile and seem more relevant.
“The people most responsible for the terrible scenes we see are President Assad, the butchers of ISIL and the people running these criminal gangs.”
On the AECR’s latest social action project we went to help on the front line. These states will eventually buckle.