A SOLIDARITY delegation is making its way to Calais today in protest against “racist” rhetoric used by the Tory government to describe refugees.

Stand Up to Racism is spending the weekend at the camp in northern France to donate money and distribute clothes to refugees — who have fled persecution and poverty — before the winter season.

Home Secretary Theresa May attacked refugees in Europe as “bogus” and said immigration harms social cohesion at the Conservative Party conference last week.

EU leaders held a summit on Thursday in which a deal was proposed with Turkey for it to tighten its borders with Syria.

It includes a £2.2 billion sweetener and visa-free travel in Europe for around 75 million Turkish nationals from 2016.

Stand Up to Racism joint secretary Weyman Bennett said: “David Cameron’s party does not speak for us and we will stand with refugees to demand that Britain upholds its humanitarian obligations to let these people in.”

And activist Maz Saleem said that the UN’s most senior human rights official compared the “dehumanising language” with that used about Jewish people during WWII.

She added: “This should raise alarm bells in people’s ears.”