Time to help fellow humans

Against a heartbreaking backdrop of desperate Ukrainian refugees being turned away from the UK at Calais, I have written to our MP Mims Davies asking her to persuade her colleagues to waive all visa requirements for Ukraine citizens seeking humanitarian refuge in our country.

Not one of these women and children is an economic migrant: they are all desperate families being bombed out of the homeland they love.

The people of Mid Sussex, as everywhere in Britain, want their government and its representatives to show real compassion in the face of most urgent need.

If ever there was a time to step forward and help our fellow human beings, that time is now. LINDA GREGORY Women’s Officer, Mid Sussex Constituency Labour Party, Junction Road, Burgess Hill