Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday he would let more unaccompanied Syrian children come to Britain after a campaign led by a peer who fled the Nazis in the 1930s, AFP reports.
The U-turn came as the government tries to head off what had been looking like a probable defeat in a parliamentary vote next week on the issue of Syrian minors.
"We're going to go round the local authorities and see what more we can do," Cameron said during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons. "What I don't want us to do is to take steps that will encourage people to make this dangerous journey" from Syria to Europe.
Cameron did not specify how many extra children would be brought to Britain. A senior Downing Street source speaking anonymously to reporters said it would be "more than just tens."