LABOUR would stop deporting young illegal immigrants and let refugees bring their families to Britain, Diane Abbott said today.

The shadow home secretary also vowed to scrap the cap on overall migrant numbers so there would be no limit on how many people can move to the UK.

2 Diane Abbott revealed Labour's latest immigration plans today Credit: Getty Images - Getty

Tories claimed the radical plan would encourage more migrants to put their lives at risk - and end up endangering children MORE.

Speaking in London today, Ms Abbott said: "We will allow the carers or parents of admitted child refugees to come here.

"We will also end the practice of deporting the children, currently without entitlement to be here, once they turn 18, even when their parents are entitled to be here.

"This commitment underlines our commitment to human rights. This is the application of Labour values and it is the right thing to do."

2 Jeremy Corbyn's Labour wants to make it easier for refugees to settle Credit: PA:Press Association

At the moment children living in Britain illegally are allowed to stay until they become adults.

But once they turn 18, they must return to their home countries.

Ms Abbott repeated Labour's vow to scrap the current target to limit net migration to 100,000 a year.

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Conservative sources claimed her suggested policy would lead more child migrants to risk their lives travelling to the UK illegally in the knowledge they could definitely settle here.

A spokesman said: "Labour's policy would risk breaking up families, creating a dangerous incentive for children to make the perilous journey across the Mediterranean and on to the UK on their own.

"Our immigration policy will always support those in genuine need and those who need the most."