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‘Please stop lying’: MP says UK has ‘most generous resettlement schemes in Europe’

Chris Philp's Good Morning Britain claims were well wide of the mark.

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2022-03-11 14:49
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Conservative MP Chris Philp has been called out for spinning false claims about how many refugees Britain has homed in recent years.

The former Home Office and Ministry of Justice Minister appeared on Good Morning Britain as the government continues to face backlash over its chaotic response to the refugee crisis.

It is understood that so far just over 1,000 visas have been issued to fleeing Ukrainian nationals.

Some 2.2 million people are believed to have fled the country.

Fact check

Philip told GMB hosts Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway that Britain’s settlement schemes have been “the most generous in Europe” when challenged on the issue, saying we “brought 25,000 people over from Syria”.

But according to Channel 4’s fact check service, that is a deeply misleading claim.

Analysis of EU and UK data by the House of Commons Library shows that: “In 2020, Germany granted the largest number of positive asylum decisions among EU countries (62,500), followed by Spain (51,100), and Greece (34,300).”

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The equivalent figure for the UK was 9,072.

And when we account for population size, the UK falls even further down the list. The same analysis ranks the UK fifteenth in Europe.

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Statistic: Ranking of the largest Syrian refugee-hosting countries in 2020 | Statista
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