Lord Dubs: ‘Someone has to speak up for people who risk their lives coming here’ thetimes.co.uk/article/lord-d…
When @AlfDubs saw children being carried wrapped in blankets out of small boats in Kent, he was instantly taken back to the moment he arrived in Britain on the Kindertransport having fled the Nazis at the age of six
@AlfDubs “What it made me feel is terrible pain for the people who are fleeing,” says the 89-year-old Labour peer. “People must be desperate, having travelled so far anyway, to risk their lives in this way. It made me feel dismayed that our government is not enabling them to be safe”
@AlfDubs Dubs is patron of the @refugeecouncil, one of the charities supported by this year’s The Times and Sunday Times Christmas Appeal. The charity is “the voice for humanity”, he says
@AlfDubs @refugeecouncil “We should all listen to it,” he says. “Somebody has to speak up for the disadvantaged and the disposed and the vulnerable and the frightened and the weak” 
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