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Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs
UK News•March 1, 2026 at 7:00 AMNational

Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs

By Geraldine McKelvie Senior correspondent•The Guardian - UK News

Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeatThe home secretary’s decision to double down on hardline immigration reforms in light of Labour’s byelection defeat to the Green party is “disappointing”, according to the Labour peer Alf Dubs.Lord Dubs, a child refugee who fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the Kindertransport in 1939, had previously accused Shabana Mahmood of “pulling up the drawbridge” on child migrants. Continue reading...

Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat

The home secretary’s decision to double down on hardline immigration reforms in light of Labour’s byelection defeat to the Green party is “disappointing”, according to the Labour peer Alf Dubs.

Lord Dubs, a child refugee who fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the Kindertransport in 1939, had previously accused Shabana Mahmood of “pulling up the drawbridge” on child migrants.

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