The public are four times more likely to have positive rather than negative attitudes towards asylum seekers and refugees, according to research published at the beginning of Refugee Week, which runs from 17 to 23 June.
A poll by Mori Social Research Institute found that British people are broadly sympathetic towards asylum seekers though respondents believed that the UK hosted nearly a quarter of the world's refugees and asylum seekers when in fact it takes just 1. 98 per cent of them.
The survey was commissioned by Amnesty International UK, the Commonwealth Institute, RefAid, Refugee Action, Refugee Council, Save the Children UK and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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