Jeremy Corbyn calls for more humanitarianism in refugee debate

UK Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn has called for people to change how they are talking about Europe's refugee crisis.

Speaking at a hustings hosted by Sky on Thursday evening, the Islington North MP emphasised the scale of the problem.

"Look at the legacy of the Iraq war, of the refugee flows all across the region, more displaced people than at any time in human recorded history," he said.

"There’s a human crisis in North Africa, there’s a human crisis of people dying in the Mediterranean, there’s a human crisis of people now in Hungary trying to get on a train in order to get to a place of safety.

Can we have less of this language about swarms and insects and a bit more language about humanitarianism?"

The UK has been castigated for having taken in fewer than 200 Syrian refugees, in a conflict that has displaced more than 6.5 million people out of a population of 22 million.