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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Aubrey Allegretti Political correspondent

Peers will fight UK government’s ‘awful’ Rwanda plans, says Lord Dubs

Alf Dubs
Dubs said of the government’s plans: ‘You can’t just shunt them around like unwanted people.’ Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

Ministers will face a fierce battle in parliament over plans to force some asylum seekers to be relocated to Rwanda, a Labour peer and former child refugee has vowed.

Alf Dubs, who was brought to Britain from Czechoslovakia on one of the Kindertransport trains in 1939, told the Guardian that the government was trying to “ride roughshod” over international agreements designed to help those seeking sanctuary.

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