Tales from the End

PM climbs down, saying he will not stand in way of amendment for UK to take in unaccompanied children already in Europe David Cameron has given in to calls for the UK to accept unaccompanied refugee children from Greece, Italy and France in a bid to avoid defeat in the House of Commons. The prime minister climbed down in the face of a growing rebellion among Conservative MPs who were preparing to back an amendment by Labour peer Lord Dubs. [Read more].

• Anushka Asthana, Rowena Mason and Karen McVeigh, David Cameron announces concessions on Syrian child refugees, The Guardian, May 4, 2016

Idomeni, Greece: A woman carrying a baby is helped up a slope at a camp for migrants and refugees near the Macedonian border. Photo: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images.