Friday, 24 Apr 2020 11:13 PM MYTLONDON, April 24 — O scar-winning actress Emma Thompson has backed a call for the British government to extend help to migrants during the coronavirus lockdown, saying many had lost livelihoods and were struggling to buy food.
Thompson said excluding those without settled status in Britain “can have a devastating effect on families, leaving children exposed to cruel levels of poverty and even destitution”. Playwright Tom Stoppard, who fled the Nazis as a child refugee, and actress Thandie Newton, who is of Zimbabwean and British heritage, were among those who signed the letter in support of a campaign by the Children’s Society, a British charity.
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