![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/peer-who-fled-nazis-as-a-child-vows-to-fight-on-against-cruel-tory-migration-bill/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0_Lord-Alf-Dubs.jpg&description=Lord Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK when he was just six, branded Suella Braverman's controversial Illegal Migration Bill "hostile" to asylum seekers and said peers would continue pushing to improve it A Labour peer who fled the Nazis as a child will launch a last-ditch attempt to stop the Government deporting unaccompanied children who seek refuge. Lord Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK when he was just six, branded Suella Braverman's controversial Illegal Migration Bill "hostile" to asylum seekers and said peers would continue pushing to improve it. Last night the Home Secretary's proposals survived a number of rebellions as critics tried to make changes to the draconian legislation, which the Government is desperate to get on the statute books quickly. Among the amendments voted down by Tories was one by Lord Dubs calling for unaccompanied children to be excluded from new rules denying them leave to remain in the UK. But he said he will try to try force it back to MPs when the bill is discussed in the Lords later today. Lord Dubs told the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 that ministers should expect a fresh battle when the Bill goes back to the Lords. He said: "This is a very serious issue. What we're seeking to do is to make a bad bill less bad. "It's a hostile bill to asylum seekers, it's a hostile bill to human rights, we're trying to just inject an element of human rights into the way we handle very vulnerable people who are fleeing for safety." He continued: "All we want to do is say you haven't thought about it very hard, please will you have another think about these issues, they're fundamental to human rights in this country." The Labour peer, born in Prague, was one of hundreds of children rescued by British stockbroker Nicholas Winton on the famous Kindertransport - which removed youngsters from Hitler's genocidal Third Reich. He said the asylum system is "broken down" and said the Government should be seeking stronger agreements with other nations includi){kind=link}
Lord Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK when he was just six, branded Suella Braverman’s controversial Illegal Migration Bill “hostile” to asylum seekers and said peers would continue pushing to improve it
A Labour peer who fled the Nazis as a child will launch a last-ditch attempt to stop the Government deporting unaccompanied children who seek refuge.
Lord Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK when he was just six, branded Suella Braverman’s controversial Illegal Migration Bill “hostile” to asylum seekers and said peers would continue pushing to improve it.
Last night the Home Secretary’s proposals survived a number of rebellions as critics tried to make changes to the draconian legislation, which the Government is desperate to get on the statute books quickly.
Among the amendments voted down by Tories was one by Lord Dubs calling for unaccompanied children to be excluded from new rules denying them leave to remain in the UK. But he said he will try to try force it back to MPs when the bill is discussed in the Lords later today.