The European Commission has called on Britain to “show solidarity” by taking in yet more migrants from Africa and the Middle East. Figures published yesterday show that the UK receives the sixth highest number of applications from asylum seekers in the EU, a number that is rising daily as migrants swarm through the Channel Tunnel. In May, the European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker called upon EU member states to take their share of 40,000 asylum seekers who had crossed the Mediterranean and landed in Italy and Greece. A further 20,000 who had not yet made the trip but were intending to do so were also allocated to countries. Britain requested an opt-out from the quota system and was granted one from the first tranche of applicants, but was forced to take some of the second tranche of 20,000. But with thousands more migrants arriving daily, the Commission has renewed its
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