Mahmood outlines safe immigration routes plan to win over Labour left Home secretary speeds up major part of bill governing asylum and refugees as new prime minister set to take over The Guardian - UK · Jun 26
Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs Exclusive: Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child says Andy Burnham has chance to ‘correct mistakes’ on refugees The Guardian - UK · Jun 26
Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat The Guardian - UK · Mar 1
UK suspension of refugee family reunion scheme to be challenged in high court Judge allows Safe Passage International to launch judicial review of halting of right to bring in children and partners The Guardian - UK · Feb 25
‘Pulling up the drawbridge’: Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmood’s plans for child refugees Exclusive: Labour peer, who came to UK as a refugee, says some ministers try to show they won’t ‘just do things because of their background’ The Guardian - UK · Feb 9
Revealed: UK’s ‘racist’ system of stripping citizenship ‘Secretive’ system means citizens are not even informed they have lost their rights, says damning report The Independent UK · Dec 11, 2025
How new asylum policies will affect child refugees The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has announced plans for the biggest overhaul of the UK asylum system in decades. Some of the harshest criticism of the proposals has come from Labour peer Lord Alf Dubs, a former child refugee who came to Britain on the Kindertransport from Prague in 1939.… The Conversation · Nov 24, 2025
Wes Streeting not ‘comfortable’ deporting children under Labour’s migrant crackdown The health secretary insisted the number of forced removals ‘should be low’ and is ‘the right thing to do for the country’ The Independent UK · Nov 19, 2025
Britain’s migration crisis: Is Labour’s crackdown targeting the right people? IN DEPTH: As Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood faces a Labour revolt over her planned overhaul of the asylum system, Alex Ross looks at how effective the measures would be The Independent UK · Nov 18, 2025
Shabana Mahmood is showing much-needed leadership on the migration issue THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: There may be doubts about some of the home secretary’s sweeping changes to the UK asylum system, but her courage is unmistakeable The Independent UK · Nov 18, 2025
Labour peer accuses Shabana Mahmood of ‘using children as a weapon’ in asylum reforms Alf Dubs, who fled from the Nazis as a child refuge, described the government’s proposals as ‘shabby’ after the Home Office said it could deport children of failed asylum seekers The Independent UK · Nov 18, 2025
Asylum changes seek to use children as a weapon, says Labour peer Alf Dubs Dubs, who was a child refugee, says Shabana Mahmood’s ‘shabby’ plans will increase community tensions The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2025
Keir Starmer may have just served up the worst political slogan of all time ‘Delivery, delivery, delivery’ isn’t just vacuous nonsense – it’s emblematic of the prime minister’s leaden-footed approach to politics, says Guardian writer Simon Hattenstone The Guardian - UK · Sep 2, 2025
No apology needed for Robert Jenrick Letters: Anne Johns says the world needs people who call out xenophobia and racism when they hear it, Mark de Brunner wonders how the truth can be objectionable, while Steven Julians says this is political incorrectness gone mad The Guardian - UK · Aug 18, 2025
The Guardian - UK · Aug 13, 2025 BBC apologises over Thought for the Day ‘xenophobia’ claim against Jenrick Corporation says Krish Kandiah’s criticism of senior Tory not appropriate for faith-based radio segment
The Guardian - UK · May 24, 2025 Labour figures urge recognition of Palestinian state at UN conference Ministers told ‘symbols matter’ and move would give Palestine stronger footing in future peace talks
The Independent UK · Jan 26, 2025 Revealed: Desperate Ukrainians resorting to illegal routes and ‘rogue advisers’ to bring children to UK Exclusive: Mother forced to bring children to UK illegally urges Starmer to ensure families can be reunited
The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2024 U-turn sees Ukrainian toddler reunited with refugee parents in UK as calls grow for government policy change Exclusive: Labour peer Lord Dubs backs urgent calls for new government to reopen family reunion route for Ukrainian refugees
The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2024 The UK’s broken refugee policy is delivering vulnerable children into the hands of people smugglers The government is preventing refugee families being reunited – but one simple proposal could change that, says Alf Dubs, patron of the Refugee Council
The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2024 ‘Into the arms of strangers’: child refugees of Nazi Germany remember At a Bundestag exhibition marking 85 years since the Kindertransport saved 10,000 children, most of them Jewish, Lord Dubs and Hella Pick recall humanity amid hatred
The Guardian - UK · Dec 10, 2023 Kindertransport success of ‘Britain’s Schindler’ celebrated in new film and exhibition Film starring Johnny Flynn and Anthony Hopkins and photographs of Holocaust survivors pay tribute to courage of UK Kindertransport hero
The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2023 Labour peer Alf Dubs calls for refugee plan for Palestinians Former refugee says scheme could help people with family connections to Britain and those in need of medical aid
The Independent UK · Aug 12, 2023 Thousands of Afghans in limbo two years after fall of Kabul – as Sunak urged to keep UK promise Exclusive: MPs and top brass intervene as government deadline for giving sanctuary to Afghans looms
The National (Scotland) · Jul 12, 2023 Labour peer who fled Nazis as child joins cross-party criticism over mural repainting A LABOUR peer who fled the Nazis as a child has joined cross-party criticism of a Home Office minister after he defended the painting over of…
Daily Mirror · Jul 12, 2023 Peer who fled Nazis as a child vows to fight on against cruel Tory migration bill Lord Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK when he was just six, branded Suella Braverman's controversial Illegal Migration Bill "hostile" to asylum seekers and said peers would continue pushing to improve it