Home secretary Amber Rudd has announced that the government is to end the Dubs amendment, which sought to provide refuge for unaccompanied children arriving in the UK. The amendment was added to an anti-illegal immigration bill introduced by David Cameron’s government by Lord Alf Dubs, who entered the UK as a six-year-old refugee on Sir Nicholas Winton’s Kindertransport trains after fleeing Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Photograph: Kostas Tsironis/EPA

Stopping the Dubs scheme for child refugees is shameful and heartless

