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All six of Cornwall's MPs last night voted against a plan to allow 3,000 unaccompanied refugee children into Britain.
The government defeated a proposal by 294 votes to 276. The cross-party amendment to the Immigration Bill was headed by Lord Dubs, who himself arrived into the UK as a refugee after fleeing from the Nazis in 1930s.
Lord Dubs, the former Labour MP Alf Dubs, argued that children who had already become stranded in Europe, in locations like the...
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