REFUGEES from Ukraine and other conflict zones today condemned Tory attempts to punish people like them for trying to reach safety at a protest against the Borders Bill. 

Ukrainian mother Dartsa and her six-year-old daughter were among a group of refugees and celebrities who boarded a boat on the Thames to urge MPs to oppose the Nationality and Borders Bill. 

Dartsa, who is being hosted at the London home of actor Juliet Stevenson, who was also on the boat, said: “The changes the government wants to make to how the UK treats refugees like us makes me very sad.