Labour peer Lord Dubs says asylum seekers have become a ‘political football’
He said poisonous comments made by Suella Braverman make people say: 'Well if the home secretary doesn't like these people why should we?'
He said poisonous comments made by Suella Braverman make people say: 'Well if the home secretary doesn't like these people why should we?'
"It really makes local people say, 'well if the home secretary doesn't like these people why should we?'", the Labour peer said.
Braverman prompted an outcry in November when she told MPs that the south coast was facing an “invasion” of illegal migrants.
"Brexit has poisoned debate. 'take back control" meant 'keep people out'"
Dubs, who fled the Nazis as a child refugee, said Priti Patel's plans were "not workable".
The Labour peer who fled the Nazis, aged six talked to The London Economic about what we can do now that Conservative MPs appear to have abandoned previous promises in the EU Withdrawal Act to reunite unaccompanied child refugees with their families.
“Children with relatives in the UK should not be surviving alone in camps and carparks in Europe, or pushed into the hands of people smugglers because safe, legal route to reach their family are shut down."
Lord Alf Dubs who campaigns for child refugees after arriving in the UK on the Kindertransport in 1939 says Chief Rabbi Mirvis went ‘too far’ in his attack on Corbyn.
Lord Alf Dubs was one of 10,000 children rescued from the Nazis by the Kindertransport. Today he will call for Theresa May to match pre-war Britain’s humanity by allowing 10,000 refugee children to come to the UK. Lord Dubs will be joined by council chiefs prepared to take more unaccompanied ...
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