Mealy-mouthed nonsense by Tom Tugendhat - another one who seems to have swapped his conscience for a ministerial car. He basically admits there are no safe and legal routes for @MishalHusain's example of a persecuted Iranian woman and just shrugs. ~AA 1/4
And if you think that using the photograph of Alan Kurdi "seared in his memory" was spontaneous, he said exactly the same thing, twenty minutes earlier to @JayneSeckerSky. ~AA 2/4
Tugendhat used to be much more concerned with the plight of refugees, before his ministerial appointment, when they were in Syria or Turkey. But during his leadership campaign, he switched to lukewarm support of the Rwanda scheme, despite acknowledging it was "a totem". ~AA 3/4 
Here is Tugendhat in the Commons, on #InternationalWomensDay a year ago, challenging the gov't on what it is doing to "defend" those women and girls "being brutalised" and "not supported as refugees".
His solution now? Send them back.
Will the real Tom please stand up? ~AA 4/4
His solution now? Send them back.
Will the real Tom please stand up? ~AA 4/4
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