Senior Conservative David Davis has said the UK should be looking to accept “north of 50,000” refugees following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. The former Brexit secretary told HuffPost UK that Britain had more of a “direct moral responsibility” to accept refugees from Afghanistan than it did following the civil war in Syria, after which the UK agreed to settle 20,000 refugees over five years. Davis said the UK should exceed the 20,000 Syrian refugees it agreed to take over a five-year period in the aftermath of the civil war. “The population of Afghanistan is twice the population of Syria for a start, and the threat is bigger and we have a more direct moral responsibility,” he said. “These are people to whom we owe a moral responsibility.”

Source: Huffington Post August 17, 2021 16:30 UTC