
Rishi Sunak’s government has been accused of “totally cruel” treatment of an Afghan war hero threatened with deportation to Rwanda, as No 10 and the Home Office refused to say whether his case would be re-examined.
Lord Alf Dubs – a child refugee who fled the Nazis before the Second World War – said the idea of deporting a pilot who fought and fled the Taliban and arrived in the UK on a small boat was “absolutely shocking”.