Britain’s shameful failure on child refugees | Letters

The government’s inhumanity to lone child refugees shown by closing down the Dubs scheme and withdrawing from the Dublin convention represents a dark day for human rights (PM accused of closing the door on child refugees, 9 February). It is also a dark day for parliamentary democracy, as these actions must be viewed in a wider context of the ease with which the government received parliamentary backing from Conservative and Labour MPs for triggering article 50, even in the face of the very