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Lord 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

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A Labour peer who fled from the Nazis as a child refugee has accused home secretary Shabana Mahmood of using “children as a weapon” under her plans to make Britain less attractive to asylum seekers.