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Here is Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, responding to the revelation that the new EU (withdrawal agreement) bill does not contain a commitment to negotiate an agreement to allow unaccompanied refugee children to come to the UK to join a relative that was in the original version.

Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) During the last Parliament, @AlfDubs led the campaign to protect child refugees post-Brexit.



The Tories now want to tear up those protections.



As we leave the EU, we can’t abandon our values. We must stand up for the most vulnerable people in the world. pic.twitter.com/W4l9sz8Pda

LabourList has a full story on this here.

No 10 says the absence of this clause from the bill does not mean its policy has changed. A spokesman said:

We are committed to ensuring that children who are claiming asylum or international protection will be reunited with specified family members in the EU and vice versa. The government’s policy on child refugees has not changed and we will continue to do all we can to enable children to claim asylum and be reunited with their families, which the legislation published today reaffirms.

That’s all from me for today.

My colleague Seth Jacobson is now taking over.