Britain will take in thousands more people fleeing Syria’s civil war as David Cameron bows to a wave of pressure triggered by images of a three-year-old boy found drowned on a Turkish beach.
Downing Street spent yesterday scrambling to match public outrage and calls, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, for Britain to do more to alleviate the human cost of Europe’s gravest postwar migration crisis.
The grieving father of Aylan Kurdi spoke of the harrowing image of his lifeless son lying face down on a beach. “We want the world to see this,” Abdullah Kurdi said.
He described the moment that he lost his entire family. “I was holding my wife’s hands. My children slipped from my hands. We tried to hold on to