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Nicola Sturgeon calls on UK to go 'further and faster' on Afghanistan resettlement scheme

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Sturgeon said the UK resettlement scheme for Afghan refugees which will see 20,000 allowed into the UK was “welcome in principle” and that the Scottish government was “ready to play a full part”.

Her comments were echoed in the Commons by Ian Blackford, the SNP Westminster leader, who said the proposed UK scheme “does not go far enough or fast enough” Blackford told MPs: “It can only be right that the number of refugees we welcome here reflects the share of responsibility the UK government has for this foreign policy disaster.This scheme falls well short of that responsibility."“This scheme needs to be far more ambitious, generous and swift to help the Afghan citizens that it has abandoned and left at serious risk of persecution and.

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