New legal routes for refugees proposed by ministers
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Ministers have pledged to open up safe paths with a cap on the numbers agreed annually in a vote by Parliament.
By Charles Hymas
Ministers are preparing to propose new safe and legal routes for up to 20,000 refugees to come to the UK next year in a major concession to Tory rebels.
The Government is understood to be ready to spell out the routes within six months of its illegal migration Bill becoming law and take the first refugees in the subsequent year.
The new safe and legal routes will be additional to those already agreed for refugees from Ukraine, Hong Kong, Syria and Afghanistan.
The moves are expected to be set out in amendments on Thursday to the Bill which is due to return to the Commons next week for its final report stage before being considered by the House of Lords. Ministers are trying to get it into law before the summer recess in July.
Rishi Sunak had previously sought to delay announcing any new routes until he had got a grip on illegal migration through his Gover...
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