‘We talk about boats … not people’: UK dehumanising refugees, Toby Jones says

Toby Jones: ‘You’d have to be inhuman to not respond to children who find themselves as refugees.’ Photograph: Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP

The Bafta-winning actor Toby Jones has highlighted the dehumanisation of refugees arriving in the UK in boats, and called the Rwanda deportation scheme the latest “in a long line of challenges” that asylum seekers have to face “just to survive”.

Jones, known for his extensive character actor roles on stage and screen, is taking part in a 24-hour “Shakespeare marathon” to fundraise for Compass Collective, a charity that supports the integration of young refugees in the UK through the arts.