The Government must fully fund councils helping refugees

By Michael Burton | 10 September 2015
  • Michael Burton

Prime Minister Anthony Eden’s wife used to say, at the peak of the Suez Crisis, that the River Nile flowed through her Downing Street sitting room.

After last week’s storm over the refugee crisis it seems the rivers of Babylon are flooding through Local Government House.

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