Gary Lineker has signed the appeal
MORE than 70 high-profile figures including Olivia Colman and Stephen Fry are calling on the PM to change “inhumane” asylum laws that force refugee children in Britain to “live their lives alone.”
Dozens of sports stars, musicians and actors have written an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson demanding he open safe routes for family members of children who have already been granted refugee status in the country.
Under current rules adult refugees are allowed to sponsor close family members to join them in Britain. But children who have been granted refugee status after travelling to the country alone are not able to bring their close relatives to live here.
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
