Britain is aiming to take in 20,000 people by 2020 JONATHAN BRADY/PAA senior UN official has said that Britain should take double the number of refugees agreed under resettlement programmes. Volker Turk, the assistant commissioner at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said that the UK needed to do its part and “step up” to address the migrant crisis by taking in about 10,000 refugees a year. Speaking after meeting ministers in London, he said he hoped that Britain could put a system in place by 2020. “We had good discussions about possible ideas about what can be done post-2020 and the government is open to discussing this and to learn the lessons from what is ongoing at the moment,” he said. “We hope very much that there will be a regular resettlement programme by Britain…

Source: The Times August 04, 2017 07:52 UTC