Nigel Farage: When he did, he declined to take part in the UN programme, saying it would be tokenistic given the huge number of refugees, according to The Guardian. Instead he stepped up Britain aid programme to help refugees in the region and set up a separate vulnerable persons relocation scheme, which prioritised victims of sexual violence, elderly and disabled people and victims of torture. When in January 2014 the UN launched an appeal, backed by 25 charities including Oxfam and Amnesty International, to take part in a large-scale programme to resettle 30,000 people fleeing Syria, it was weeks before Cameron responded. As of June, only 215 people have come to Britain under this scheme. Their plight provoked a new public outcry but it was not until after the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, had demanded that Britain should help pluck them from the sea that Cameron ordered the Royal Navy to take part. In April, the refugee crisis came to a new head during the general election, when hundreds of people drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean.
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