Sir Mick Davis, the chairman of the Jewish Leadership Council, has said that Britain has a “moral imperative” to help refugees from the Middle East and Africa.
Sir Mick, who was head of David Cameron’s Holocaust Commission, told the Times that the UK had welcomed Jews fleeing from the Nazis in the 1930s and should not now “shut itself off”.
Mr Cameron is facing pressure from other European Union countries, led by Germany, for Britain to accept more of the thousands of migrants from Syria, Libya and Iraq.
Some Conservative MPs have also called for increased numbers of asylum seekers to be allowed into Britain, but the Prime Minister has warned that the migration crisis will not be solved by accepting “more and more refugees”.
