A former cabinet minister who has become one of the first MPs to take a Ukrainian family into his home under a new government scheme, has hit out at the red tape involved.
Newark MP and former housing minister Robert Jenrick has welcomed Maria, 40, and her two children, Christina, 11, and Boden, 15, into his family home in Nottinghamshire after picking them up from Stansted airport this week.
But he said the red tape involved in the Government's Homes for Ukraine scheme had "tested the patience" of both sponsors and the families fleeing war, reports the Mirror. Speaking on the Chopper's Politics podcast, he called on the Home Office to allow the paperwork to be completed in Ukrainian, and to stop forcing children to fill out separate forms to come to the UK.
