"Do we really want to be a country, that until recently, was granting passports & privileges to Putin's friends, but won't wave visas for Putin's Ukrainian victims in their hour of need?"

“I get accused of being pro-Russian and pro-Putin, I’m pro-human rights, that’s my position," the former Labour leader said.

"That tweet really was the modern day equivalent of ‘let them eat cake’," shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said.

“Either the Home Office website and the information given to journalists this afternoon about the policy is completely wrong. Or the Home Secretary gave the wrong information to the House.”

Speaking on Steve Bannon’s show WarRoom, Ben Harnwell said there is a “direct causal link” between her activism and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last week.

"In the many, many ways I imagined the Tories could be the death of us, Liz Truss starting a nuclear war wasn't actually one of them."

"Bad immigration policy and even worse timing," one migrants' rights activist said.

The losses and shock inflicted on my family feel strikingly similar to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the impact it is already having on the country's people.

The government has been urged to do more to help fleeing Ukrainians settle in the UK.