As a Holocaust survivor who challenged our Home Secretary about her language against refugees, and its parallels with Nazi rhetoric, I cannot stay silent while she – and even Jewish members of our cabinet – denounce those concerns now they have been shared by Gary Lineker.
The Home Secretary has said that Britain has always been a country that welcomes refugees. I lay out here some of the facts which show that is not the case.
Attitudes, language, legislation and policies of intolerance in Westminster, throughout the first half of the 20th Century, cost lives during the Holocaust – mine very nearly among them. If we do not learn from history, they will do so again.
