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In today’s newsletter: Dozens of children who arrived on small boats have been abducted outside Home Office-run hotels. How did this happen – and is anyone actually looking for them?

Darren Lewis is appalled by reports that defenceless kids are being abducted from a Government-run hotel for asylum seekers