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Lib Dem pleads for refugee kids law

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT leader Tim Farron called on Britain to take in 3,000 unaccompanied refugee children in a private member’s Bill in the Commons yesterday.

The MP wants to commit Britain to helping Syrian, Iraqi, Afghan and Eritrean children displaced by conflict and living alone in Europe.

Recalling the kindertransport of the 1930s, in which Britain took in nearly 10,000 Jewish refugees escaping nazi persecution, he said the moral duty was “at the core of what it means to be British.”

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