The UK Government is "washing its hands" of the Syrian people, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford has claimed.
He warned the humanitarian situation in the war-torn country has "reached crisis point", as he asked if Boris Johnson is "content for [Syrian president] Assad's regime to continue enacting these atrocities".
Johnson rejected the claims made during Prime Minister's Questions, arguing "this Government has persistently called for the end of the Assad regime and indeed has led the world in denouncing the cruelty of the Assad regime towards his own people".
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Blackford said: "In northern Syria, displaced women and their children are literally freezing to death. There are reports of babies dying due to the extreme conditions and 45,000 people remain stranded with nowhere to go.
"The Syrian war is considered to have caused the biggest wave of displacement since the Second World War.
"Can the Prime Minister tell the House what responsibility his Government has taken for this humanitarian crisis?"
Johnson replied: "The UK leads the world in supporting the crisis, supporting humanitarian relief efforts in Syria, £3.2 billion this country has committed to that cause."
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Blackford claimed that when Johnson was foreign secretary in 2017, "this Prime Minister enacted a policy of accepting the Syrian dictator Assad's rule over the country".
The MP said: "Assad has delivered death and destruction on his people, a man who has gassed his own civilians. The humanitarian situation has reached crisis point and there are now concerns of all-out war.
"Is the message the Prime Minister wants to send out from this House today that this UK Government is washing its hands of the Syrian people and that he is content for Assad's regime to continue enacting these atrocities?"
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Johnson replied: "I really think [he] needs to consult his memory better because he will find that this country and this Government has persistently called for the end of the Assad regime and indeed has led the world in denouncing the cruelty of the Assad regime towards his own people, that has been continuously the policy of the British Government."
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