Lord Dubs: A Fireside Chat

​This fireside chat brings together one of Britain's most principled voices on refugee rights and an audience of Westminster professionals, policymakers, and emerging leaders for substantive conversation on what it means to flee persecution, find refuge, and spend a lifetime fighting for others in the same position. The event will explore Lord Dubs' journey from arriving on the Kindertransport in 1939 as a six-year-old refugee fleeing Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to serving as an MP, minister, and life peer, his decades of advocacy through the Refugee Council and Parliament, the story behind the Dubs Amendment and why it fell so far short of its aims, and what drives him to continue fighting for refugee rights in his 90s when the political climate has hardened against asylum seekers.

​By hosting this conversation, the Adam Hub demonstrates its commitment to hearing from those whose lived experience informs their life's work and whose moral authority comes from having been where the people they fight for are now. The event positions the Hub as a space where personal testimony and political reflection combine to help audiences understand not just the policy debates around asylum and refuge, but the human reality behind them. For an audience of emerging leaders, many from minority and migrant backgrounds themselves, Lord Dubs' story offers both inspiration and a sobering reminder of how quickly compassion can turn to hostility when political winds shift.