Despite objections and amendments raised the Nationality and Borders Bill has become law.

Devasted.

In the words of Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Director,

‘It truly is a bleak day for refugees fleeing conflict and persecution……..the UK government today ripped up the Refugee Convention – a longstanding international agreement – and shamefully abandoned the responsibility it owes to refugees’.