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Bill Newton Dunn, the EU’s longest-serving MEP, said he was very worried for the UK.

The Labour peer who fled the Nazis, aged six talked to The London Economic about what we can do now that Conservative MPs appear to have abandoned previous promises in the EU Withdrawal Act to reunite unaccompanied child refugees with their families.

“Children with relatives in the UK should not be surviving alone in camps and carparks in Europe, or pushed into the hands of people smugglers because safe, legal route to reach their family are shut down."

Lord Alf Dubs who campaigns for child refugees after arriving in the UK on the Kindertransport in 1939 says Chief Rabbi Mirvis went ‘too far’ in his attack on Corbyn.

Riley overlooks Boris Johnson calling black people “piccaninnies” with “watermelon smiles” and Muslims "letterboxes" to smear Jeremy Corbyn at an anti-racism rally.

Posters imitating the Daily Mail headline were distributed on social media with pictures of the 12 judges featured.

"You will not f with my children’s future. You will not destroy the freedoms my grandfather fought two world wars to defend. F off you over-promoted rubber bath toy. Britain is revolted by you and you little gang of masturbatory prefects."

Lord Alf Dubs was one of 10,000 children rescued from the Nazis by the Kindertransport. Today he will call for Theresa May to match pre-war Britain’s humanity by allowing 10,000 refugee children to come to the UK. Lord Dubs will be joined by council chiefs prepared to take more unaccompanied ...

Dominic Grieve called Boris Johnson a “shallow populist” who would bring doom to the Conservative Party in a scathing interview published today. The Tory MP for Beaconsfield told The New European that Johnson would be “manifestly unsuitable for high office” if he won the leadership race – which he is ...

As reports emerge that the Home Office is slashing a scheme to bring vulnerable unaccompanied children to the UK, four British children the same age as many of the children homeless in Northern France gave us their response after helping their counterparts not fortunate enough to have been born in ...

“Aliens pouring into our country”. “The Swarm on our streets.” The first is a Daily Mail headline from 1938 and the second is from the same newspaper in 2016. Following two visits to the Calais 'jungle' last year I was struck by the numbers of unaccompanied children and young people I saw there. They were ...

Agonising separation laws are inflicting immeasurable pain upon families already grief-stricken by the horrors of war.

Amendments to the Immigration Bill to protect lone children and call for a time limit to immigration detention were defeated by the government.

By Clare Moseley, founder of Care4Calais

The emotional video message was projected on to the Kent landmark which provided a welcoming sight for soldiers returning from Dunkirk in 1940.

Today is the greatest day in the history of these Brexit papers. They won, we lost. Let's hope they were right.

By Clare Moseley, founder, Care4Calais

Call me pessimistic, but I simply cannot.

'Betraying commitments that have been made to the most vulnerable children of all,’ betraying assurances to EU citizens and to the other countries of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson’s Brexit finally cleared its last hurdle as grubbily as you might expect.

Lord Dubs' amendment looked to guarantee family reunion rights for child refugees after Brexit.

With Brexit day looming on January 31, a power battle has commenced between Boris Johnson’s government and the House of Lords over rights and powers eroded in his EU Withdrawal Agreement

Peers backed a move to ensure the rights of child refugees to be reunited with their families in the UK in a fourth embarrassing Lords defeat for the PM’s Withdrawal Bill in hours.

Peers vote for EU citizens to be given physical proof of right to stay in UK after Brexit.

By David Rosenberg

The leadership frontrunner launches his leadership campaign with a promise to hound Boris Johnson relentlessly in Parliament.

Ahead of the debate, Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer and Lord Alf Dubs, who fled from the Nazis on the Kindertransport to Britain when he was aged six, wrote to all Tory MPs calling on them to vote against the Boris Johnson’s “disgraceful” abandonment of the ‘Dubs' children.

Opposition MPs warned of ‘tragic consequences’ for lone youngsters as Tories blocked a bid to enshrine child refugee rights in Brexit agreement

Labour leadership hopeful Sir Keir Starmer and Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis as a boy, have urged MPs to block the change.

A look around today's papers, as the Express predict a Brexit Boom and Australian wildfires dominate front pages.

Several amendments are being tabled to the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill.

In yet another broken promise, the Government has removed a pledge to strike a deal with the European Union so child refugees can be reunited with their UK families.

The t-shirt mimics the Tesco logo, and reads: "Tories, very little help."

The Conservative minister was jeered when he actually said "anybody who supports a racist party leader shouldn't be standing for parliament."

The Tory peer said Boris Johnson’s islamophobic words led to Muslim women suffering increased attacks.

By Julia Bard.

Ephraim Mirvis said the Labour leader’s failure to deal with the issue made him unfit to be prime minister.

The Labour leader says he is offering the most ‘ambitious and radical’ election manifesto in decades.

With an election around the corner, accusations, allegations and inferences of antisemitism have hit the headlines of media outlets once more, especially those known more for their sensationalism than their serious commitment to combating this evil.

She has become something of a star in the last few hours...

“The lack of safe and regular routes available for people seeking protection to enter the UK leaves people with no alternative other than placing themselves into the hands of people smugglers.”

I doubt refugees in Calais know it’s #WorldRefugeeDay, but they have still marked the occasion - Border Force officials tell us that 163 people have arrived on the coast of Kent this month, the largest number in any one month so far.  And just like every time we hear a ...

Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal bill will not be published or debated until early June, the government says. The prime minister is under pressure to resign following a backlash from her own MPs against her pledged "new deal" on Brexit.

The Home Office has released figures revealing that British and French authorities encountered 562 people attempting the crossing across the Channel from France in small boats in 2018 and 177 in the first two months of 2019. With the humanitarian situation for many sleeping rough around Calais deteriorating and the ...

The Tab Hull editor Christian Calgie, 21, wrote a comment piece for the website and hit out at the behaviour of Young Conservatives

Why is it that such a small number of people crossing has been treated as a major crisis, yet Javid and his Tory colleagues have done nothing about the crisis of record high homelessness, or the surge in people forced to rely on Foodbanks?