Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs

Labour peer Alf Dubs came to the UK aged six on the Kindertransport, fleeing the persecution of Jews in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

The home secretary’s decision to double down on hardline immigration reforms in light of Labour’s byelection defeat to the Green party is “disappointing”, according to the Labour peer Alf Dubs.

Lord Dubs, a child refugee who fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the Kindertransport in 1939, had previously accused Shabana Mahmood of “pulling up the drawbridge” on child migrants.