'I know cost of immigration rules that separate families'

Lord Dubs' plea to aid Gazans

- BY DAVE BURKE Political Correspondent

A LABOUR peer who fled the Nazis as a child has called on ministers to rip up rules pulling Gazan families apart.

Lord Alf Dubs has written to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood urging her to allow students accepted to UK universities to bring their children and spouses.

Otherwise, he says, they are forced to choose between their families and futures.

The peer, who came to the UK aged six in 1939 on the Kindertransport, wrote: "I know the cost of immigration rules that separate families.