A senior minister has defended a plan to push on with a flight deporting 50 people to Jamaica despite widespread calls for the jet to be grounded. Chief Secretary to
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Lord Dubs has pledged to continue his campaign to guarantee family reunion rights for unaccompanied child refugees after EU withdrawal despite a Commons defeat. Conservative MPs voted down the measure
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The first paediatric operating room in a refugee camp is to be build by a Scottish charity, it has been announced at the World Economic Forum. Edinburgh-based Kids Operating Room
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A Congolese man who was almost deported from the UK after seeking political asylum has been granted refugee status following an outcry by supporters. Otis Bolamu, 38, said he fled
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MPs have voted down proposals to enshrine protections for child refugees as part of the Government’s Brexit agreement. Following his election victory, Boris Johnson re-drafted his European Union (Withdrawal Agreement)
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Conservative MPs are being urged to “take a moral stance” and support an amendment demanding the Government continues to negotiate to take in lone child refugees from Europe after Brexit.
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Boris Johnson has claimed his Government is “absolutely committed” to allowing unaccompanied child refugees to be reunited with their families after Brexit. The Prime Minister was accused of using key
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MPs have expressed dismay at the decision to “tear up” a pledge to negotiate a deal allowing refugee children in Europe with UK family to come to Britain after Brexit.
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Campaigners have called on the Home Secretary to change “unfair rules” which separate refugee families, with a video animation highlighting the “horrors” faced by children fleeing wartorn countries. The Refugee
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A lorry driver has denied being involved in an alleged human trafficking plot linked to the deaths of 39 people in a refrigerated container. Emergency services had been called to
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