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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Walker Political correspondent

Alf Dubs: Braverman calling refugees ‘invaders’ was low point of my career

Lord Dubs speaks at a protest to demand protection for the rights of refugee children in London in January 2020
Lord Dubs speaks at a protest to demand protection for the rights of refugee children in London in January 2020. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

Alf Dubs, the veteran Labour peer who arrived in the UK as a child fleeing the Nazis, has described Suella Braveman’s likening of refugees to invaders as “deeply and personally upsetting”, 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 “hostile people”.

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