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Campaigners to appeal after High Court backs Tories on keeping out refugee orphans
FELICITY COLLIER reports

CAMPAIGNERS are set to appeal after losing a High Court bid to force the Home Office to increase the number of unaccompanied child refugees accepted under the Dubs scheme.

The Help Refugees charity argued yesterday that the consultation process was “fundamentally flawed” because it was based on Home Secretary Amber Rudd’s calculation that just 480 should be allowed into Britain.

The Dubs amendment to the 2016 Immigration Act has, from May last year, required the Home Secretary to relocate from Europe “a specified number” of vulnerable refugee children.

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