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BRITAIN will provide asylum for unaccompanied child refugees in Europe following David Cameron’s decision yesterday to drop his opposition, avoiding a damaging Commons defeat.
The Prime Minister insisted last week that Britain should only take refugees from camps in Syria and that children who had reached Europe were already in “relative safety.”
But he backed down as Tory MPs prepared to rebel against the government and back a Labour amendment to the Immigration Bill mandating Britain to save children in Europe.
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
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
