When the will is there, it can be done ā that is our point:Ā there is hope yet ā¦ We will collate reports and legal challenges to the Nationality and Borders legislation here.
See also: https://qarn.org.uk/government-plans-for-borders-and-immigration-2023/
3 February 2023: Guardian: Alf Dubs: Braverman calling refugees āinvadersā was low point of my career
Labour peer who fled to UK to escape Nazis says home secretaryās words ādeeply and personally upsetting.
Alf Dubs, the veteran Labour peer who arrived in the UK as a child fleeing the Nazis, has described Suella Bravemanās likening of refugees to invaders as ādeeply and personally upsettingā, and a low point of his half century in politics.
Dubs, who fled what was then Czechoslovakia unaccompanied in 1939 and came to the UK aged six as part of the Kindertransport system, condemned the home secretary for using language that painted those also fleeing persecution as āhostile peopleā.
Dubsā comments, made in a new podcast series presented by the Lord Speaker, John McFall, follow criticism of Braverman by another survivor of the Holocaust last month.
In comments made in October, shortly after she was reappointed by Rishi Sunak, Braverman said in the Commons that refugees and migrants crossing the Channel in small boats were āthe invasion on our southern coastā.
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