Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs

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Alfred Dubs, Baron Dubs (born 5 December 1932) is a Labour life peer in the British House of Lords. Dubs was born in Czechoslovakia to a Jewish father who escaped to Britain when Nazi Germany invaded the country. He then joined his father as a six-year-old refugee, travelling by rail on the Kindertransport. He was educated in the UK and, after a career in local government and advertising, he became the Labour MP for Battersea for eight years. After losing his seat, he was made a baron during the Blair government which he served as a junior minister in the Northern Ireland Office.

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