Thousands demand ministers rethink child refugee plan

Campaigners calling for Britain to continue to provide a safe haven for lone child refugees have delivered a petition to Downing Street. The Labour peer, himself a refugee who came to Britain on the Kindertransport to escape the Nazis during the Second World War, has described the Government's decision to scrap its pledge as a "very shabby cop-out". Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary, has expressed concern that the scheme was being abused by people-traffickers and that it was acting as a "pull facto