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The dreadful treatment of refugees must end
The Ukraine conflict highlights a systemic problem with Britain’s response to refugees, caused by a system which is not fit for purpose, says DIANE ABBOTT MP
People fleeing from Ukraine queue to board on a bus at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Friday March 4

WHEN serious international conflict breaks out, it is quite customary to hear widespread calls for peace and fair treatment of refugees. 

However, we have grown used to these calls being widely ignored over the last three decades of wars. That has certainly been the case in just the earliest days of the Ukraine crisis.

In fact one of the worst aspects has been the response to the refugee crisis. This has numerous features. 

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