This is the Guardian.

Today, across the UK, tens of thousands of people are making space in their homes for those fleeing Ukraine.

Can the British government match their generosity?

For three weeks, as the war in Ukraine has gone on, people in Britain have become more impassioned,

angry with the government, demanding to know what it's doing to help, to grant visas for people fleeing, to give them shelter.

And finally, a few days ago, the Cabinet Minister Michael Gove came to Parliament with an answer.

Mr Speaker, with your permission, I would like to make a statement on our government's response to help those fleeing the conflict in Ukraine.

And he threw the challenge of responding to Europe's biggest refugee crisis in a generation back to the British people.

The scheme will allow Ukrainians with no family ties to the UK to be sponsored by individuals or organisations who can offer them a home.

There will be no limit to the number of Ukrainians who can benefit from this scheme.

The response was immediate.

Natalie is turning her living room into a home for Ukrainian refugees.

I'd like to be able to look after them. I think they've been through absolute hell.

If we were in their shoes, we'd want someone to offer to give them some way to keep be safe and have a roof over their heads.

So many thousands of people signed up that the government website crashed.

But while more and more people offer up their spare rooms, the UK government, unlike others in Europe, keeps insisting that Ukrainians meet its visa requirements and fill in its online forms,

leaving those people in limbo between a life of crisis in Ukraine and some form of safety in the UK.

Ukrainians have been travelling to the European Union for visa free for five years now.

So far, there has not been a migration crisis or a rise in crime.

I'm not sure what our government is worried about letting these people in.

One of this government's central ideas is to be tough on immigration and asylum.

Next week, it will bring back to Parliament its controversial nationality and borders bill.

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