Last year 200, 000 children fleeing war arrived in Italy as refugees, and these were the lucky ones who did not die on the way.

13,000 were unaccompanied, and of those 4,000 disappeared. Nobody to care for them, no education no health support, and most likely working as slaves or prostitutes. This year it will be worse.

Lib Dem Leader Tim Farron has submitted a private members bill proposing that the UK take 3,000 of these children. That is far less than the number of Jewish children we took in before the last war.

Tim’s proposal is a liberal solution to a humane problem facing the young and vulnerable.