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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

Top Tory DEFENDS only offering 50 visas to Ukrainian refugees in car crash Sky interview

A Tory minister has defended the UK's refugee scheme which has offered just 50 visas to desperate Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion so far.

The Home Office confirmed on Sunday that only around 1% of the 5,535 applicants with family links in the UK had seen their applications approved.

Foreign Minister James Cleverly insisted the process had "only just started" after the UK faced criticism for the speed of the response to the biggest humanitarian crisis in Europe since the Second World War.

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