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Mr Cameron’s attempts to win support have not been helped by his refusal to sign up to the Franco-German refugee resettlement plan but the PM has continually raised Britain’s aid contribution as evidence that the country is playing its part.

In addition, the two leaders “discussed how a big part of the answer to the refugee crisis must be a solution to the situation in Syria“, a spokesman for Cameron’s office said.

Rather than claiming asylum in the first safe European Union country they reach, most head on toward wealthy northern states.

She said that the United Kingdom also believed that there needed to be a proper process for assessing claims for asylum by migrants, with those who were not entitled to refugee status being returned to their country of origin.

The chair of the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) group, Joan Ryan MP, reportedly issued an invitation to Corbyn to address a reception to be held at the party’s annual conference next week, against the backdrop of concern from the Jewish community in the United Kingdom over...

Well first, because the “pull factor” for refugees and economic migrants from North Africa and the Mid-East is now super-charged by German statements and sentiments it is incumbent on Germany to properly register all the migrants who are now being funnelled to them...

He is correct that many on the right of the Labour Party – and the Blairites in particular – are deeply unhappy, but he may well be wrong in thinking the Lib Dems will be the main beneficiaries.

Jeremy Corbyn, who was elected as new leader of labour party on 12 September, is expected to reveal the plan of renationalising the railways.

Boosting aid to regional states hosting refugees was key to tackling the crisis that has seen tens of thousands of asylum-seekers flood into Europe, Cameron said, reiterating his argument against charges that London was not doing enough.

Tim Farron declared his door was “wide open” to potential Labour defectors amid warnings Jeremy Corbyn’s party would be “slaughtered” by the Conservatives.

Even in peaceful, consensus-minded Switzerland, however, the issue of asylum seekers is proving politically sensitive and the country’s biggest party, the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), remains strongly opposed to any measures that might encourage more...

Robinson avoided automatically triggering an election by naming Arlene Foster, the only minister from his Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) who did not step down on Thursday, as acting first minister.

After thanking those who voted for him, he said: “I thought at my first PMQs, I would do it in a slightly different way”. This was the debate he had, successfully, in the last election against Corbyn’s predecessor, Ed Miliband.

When asked if he would have sung it, former Shadow Welsh Secretary Mr Smith said: “Yes, even as a Welshman I sing it on such occasions”. “As he said in the words issued this morning, the heroism of the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain is something to...

The Islington North MP had earlier vowed to create a less theatrical PMQs than has been previously exhibited and he started this process by using questions submitted to him by members of the public to quiz Mr Cameron, rather than his own.