Lord Dubs shocked by UK refugee 'admin error'

The Home Office has announced it is to take 130 more refugee children under the Dubs scheme, after admitting it had underestimated the number of available places in UK in an "admin error".

Ministers said the previous announcement that Britain would take 350 lone child refugees was incorrect and the correct number was 480.

Labour peer Lord Dubs, whose amendment to the Immigration Act paved the way for Syrian children to settle in the UK, expressed dismay when Theresa May announced the 350 limit.

The peer, himself a former child refugee from the Nazis, said the new announcement was “especially shocking that they have ‘just discovered’ this dreadful mistake after we and the local authorities have been telling them for several months that there were more offers of places.”