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Evening Standard Comment: End the chaos — we must welcome refugees fleeing Ukraine

They escape any way they can. By train, car, even on foot. Two million Ukrainians have now crossed the border into neighbouring countries, in doing so becoming refugees from Vladimir Putin’s war. Poland alone has taken in one million.

Britain is relatively far away but is expected to take its share of desperate people in their hour of need. Yet the Home Office says it has granted only 300 visas, despite more than 17,000 applications.

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