The country must do more to help desperate Syrian refugees, according to an MP.

Enfield Southgate MP David Burrowes and Tory backbencher has called for his government to do more on the humanitarian crisis that faces Europe.

Mr Burrowes said: “Britain is taking the lead with humanitarian aid amounting to £900 million and has a historic and current moral duty to provide a safe place for Syrian refugees.

“We should at the least provide refuge for thousands of refugees not just hundreds.”

Vice chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on refugees, MP Burrowes waded into the debate on Wednesday when he tweeted the UK should “at the very least” accept one per cent of refugees “because we accept more than one per cent responsibility".

Mr Burrowes also called on the Government to take immediate action into the crisis.

He said: “In June, I told the PM that the small increase in voluntary resettlement of Syrian refugees in camps around the Mediterranean was in danger of being too little too late. Now we must take immediate action to take our fair share of refugees.”