Live Aid campaigner Bob Geldof says he is "immediately" prepared to let three refugee families stay at his Kent home.

The Boomtown Rats frontman is opening the doors of his house in Davington, near Faversham, to help deal with the growing migrant crisis.

He also says he will let another family stay at his flat in London.

He made the bold pledge on Irish radio station, RTE Radio One, this morning, describing how Ireland should “not close our eyes to people dying needlessly”.

He said: “We are better than this, we genuinely are. I'd be happy to put up a Syrian family.

"I'm prepared - I'm lucky, I've a place in Kent and a flat in London - me and [partner] Jeanne would be prepared to take three families immediately in our place in Kent and a family in our flat in London, immediately, and put them up until such time as they can get going and get a purchase on their future.

“It is a monstrous betrayal of who we are and what we wish to be, we are in a moment that will be discussed and impacted upon in 300 years time, a fundamental shift in the way the world has worked for the last, say, 600 years.

"If there's a new economy there needs to be a new politics. There isn't and it's that failure of new politics that has led to this f***ing disgrace."

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