ANTI-RACISM activists slammed the government’s “shameful” and “inhumane” response to the refugee crisis at a mass rally in London last night.

Stand Up to Racism organiser Sabby Dhalu said that the small number of refugees David Cameron is willing to accept was a “gross dereliction of duty.”

She called on the British government and EU countries to accept more refugees, saying that the situation “would be easily manageable if these countries would adopt a more humanitarian approach.”

Shadow foreign minister Catherine West told crowds that the government’s “inadequate response” to the escalating crisis was “shameful.”

Ms West called on Britain not to turn its back and ignore the biggest migration of refugees since the second world war.

She said that Britain had “a proud history of helping people fleeing persecution and we stand together tonight to call for much more to be done.”

Unite Against Fascism’s Weyman Bennett accused David Cameron of dehumanising refugees and refusing to fulfil any “basic tenets of humanity.”

Mr Bennett, who visited the refugee camps in Calais and distributed aid, called for action to save the refugees.

Meanwhile Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon met Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond yesterday to tell him that Scotland was “willing and able” to take more refugees.

She said the nation would take a “proportionate” 2,000 of Britain’s pledged 20,000 quota ahead of tomorrow’s EU summit on the refugee crisis.