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Dubs slams May’s quiet pledge drop
‘Scandalous’ that government won’t take in refugee children
LORD DUBS attacked the government yesterday over its “scandalous” decision to renege on its pledge to grant asylum to thousands of lone child refugees in Europe.
Rather than the 3,000 vulnerable children the government promised to support under the “Dubs” scheme, it sneaked out the fact that just 200 of them had been granted asylum.
The government also announced that after a paltry 150 more are accepted, the scheme would be shut down.
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