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‘We’ve all got to speak out… we need more voices’

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

Lord Alf Dubs on stage addressing the crowd during a rally in Parliament Square, London, after taking part in the Refugees Welcome March, September 2016

“I THOUGHT this government would be better on refugees, but they haven’t passed the test yet.”

Lord Alfred Dubs reveals plans for an amendment to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill that would see children fleeing war able to reunite with their families in the UK.

When Lord Alf Dubs was just six years old, he fled Prague on a Kindertransport train to Liverpool Street with nothing but a knapsack of food from his mother and a dog tag to identify him.

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