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Tory fury as UK blames Salisbury attack threat for issuing just 500 Ukraine visas

Furious Tories lined up to blast the Home Office after just 500 Ukraine Family Scheme visas were issued, with a centre due in Lille in 24 hours - but not Calais. Yet ministers defended the slow progress, saying imposters are already "pretending to be Ukrainian"

Daily Mirror

Process to enter UK ‘taking ages’, says man trying to help family flee Ukraine

Vitalii Morgun, who lives in the UK, said his brother Yevgen, sister-in-law Anna, and their two children have been effectively stranded in Calais.

The Independent UK

Ukraine refugees trapped in Calais told to make 70-mile journey to Lille to apply for UK visas

No 10 faces down pressure for application centre in port town – where 300 refugees have gathered

The Independent UK

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Priti Patel accused of misleading MPs over help for Ukrainian refugees at Calais

Home secretary wrongly claimed to have set up visa centre which is not yet operational

The Independent UK

Visa centre for Ukraine refugees in Calais will be in Lille - 70 MILES away

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss let slip the location in the House of Commons after hundreds of families arrived in the French port - only to discover they had to attend visa centres in Paris or Brussels in person

Daily Mirror

Home Office condemned for claim that Ireland’s welcome for Ukraine refugees is UK security threat

Backlash against briefing that Ukrainians will be able to travel on to Britain without biometric checks

The Independent UK

Richard Madeley challenges gov minister over 'inhumane' visa process for refugees

Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley grilled MP Ben Wallace on Good Morning Britain, after the UK was urged to speed up efforts to grant visas to Ukrainian refugees fleeing the conflict with Russia

Daily Mirror

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Volodymyr Zelenskiy tells UK MPs Ukraine will fight ‘in the forests, in the fields, in the streets’ – as it happened

Ukrainian president summons spirit of Winston Churchill and tells MPs his country ‘will fight to the end in the sea, in the air, whatever the costs’

The Guardian - UK

Priti Patel accused of misleading MPs over Ukrainian refugees

Defence secretary says country can do more, as he predicts Ukraine invasion will be ‘Putin’s end’

The Guardian - UK

Furious Lorraine Kelly blasts 'shameful' government over UK's pitiful Ukraine visa figures

Lorraine had briefly appeared on Good Morning Britain with hosts Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley as she reacted to Ukrainians struggling to get a visa into the UK

Daily Mirror

'Insulting' Calais sign for Ukraine refugees after Patel blunder over UK visa centre

Just 300 visas have been approved for Ukrainian refugees attempting to reach the UK out of nearly 10,000 completed applications, as the Home Office comes under fire

Daily Mirror

Ukrainian refugees face ‘chaos’ trying to apply to UK family visa scheme

Priti Patel urged to ‘accept that things are going wrong’ as families who have fled Russian conflict forced to travel for hours to attend visa appointments, with some unable to book one at all

The Independent UK

UK reserves just 100 visa appointments in a week for Ukraine refugees in France

It comes despite 1.7million people fleeing Ukraine and mounting anger over families in Calais. Overall the UK has granted just 300 Ukraine family visas in total so far

Daily Mirror

Transport operators face £2,000 fines for bringing Ukrainians without visas to UK

Firms say they are bound by 1999 law amid reports of families being turned around at French ports

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Refugee policy chaos as Priti Patel contradicts visa figures and herself in the Commons

The Home Secretary said visa figures issued by the Home Office were wrong and initially said a visa centre in Calais was open but then had to correct herself.

The Independent UK

UK government denies giving cool welcome to Ukraine refugees

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has defended his government’s treatment of Ukrainians fleeing war, after France accused U.K. authorities of “inhumane” behavior towards the refugees

The Independent UK

Ukraine war: French interior minister warns that refugees could be ‘pushed to take small boats’ by UK visa delays

Priti Patel says a new visa processing centre is being set up en route to Calais

The Independent UK

Government under fire over support for Ukrainian refugees

The Home Office has been accused of a chaotic response to the crisis.

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Daily Mirror

Chaos as Priti Patel says Ukraine families can get visas near Calais - but not yet

Home Secretary Priti Patel sparked fresh chaos by saying a visa centre "en route" to Calais has been set up - only to suggest minutes later that it's not ready yet

Daily Mirror

Builder's wife and kids BANNED from UK after fleeing Ukraine war zone

Vitalie Turetska drove to the Ukraine-Romania border at the onset of the invasion to get wife Helena and sons Danya, six, and Mapk, two, to safety, but they're now stuck in Calais

Daily Mirror

UK visas plan for Ukraine refugees in chaos as Boris Johnson says numbers 'not right'

Priti Patel's Home Office claims that 50 visas had been granted; people were not turned back at Calais and that there'll be a third new humanitarian route were all hit by confusion at the top of government

The Independent UK

UK not doing ‘anywhere near enough’ for Ukrainian refugees, says Sturgeon

Scotland’s first minister wants No 10 to adopt a similar approach to Ireland

The Guardian - UK

Johnson says UK may need to produce more oil and gas to reduce reliance on Russia – as it happened

UK prime minister says he will announce an energy supply strategy soon but adds that UK must go ‘step by step’

The Guardian - UK

Priti Patel under fire over chaotic Ukrainian refugee policy

Home Office sources contradict earlier government denials that third way to enter Britain may be introduced

Evening Standard

‘A disgrace’: Tory MPs attack paltry 50 UK visas for Ukrainian refugees

France over the weekend accused the UK of having a ‘lack of humanity’

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