Boris Johnson denies overruling spy agencies on Lord Lebedev’s peerage

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Challenged on “around 50” Ukrainian refugee visas being granted to date, Boris Johnson told reporters: “I’m not sure those numbers are right but we’re processing thousands as I speak to you.

“And clearly this crisis is evolving the whole time and I’ve said before that the UK will be as generous as we can possibly be. And we intend to do that. We have two very, very generous routes already so the family reunion route , which is uncapped and could potentially see hundreds of thousands of people come to this country, plus the humanitarian route.

“And under that scheme people can sponsor people coming from Ukraine. We’re surging officials into the border countries to help people to come so to Poland, to Bulgaria, to Romania, also to France, and clearly what’s happening now is that Putin is doubling down on his aggression.

“And he is deciding to attack in a pretty indiscriminate way. That’s producing huge waves of people. We’re going to have to respond to that and we will. We’ve always been very generous in the way we respond to people fleeing war.” zones and no country in Europe has done more to settle vulnerable people in Europe since 2015 than the UK.

“I can’t give you the number. We’re processing thousands right now, we will continue to make sure that we have a very, very generous approach.”

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