Brexit employs the language of fear and discrimination against the world’s poorest and most vulnerable just as Trump is doing now. When Nigel Farage stood in front of a poster of exhausted Syrians fleeing persecution, and used it to push the Brexit agenda, it became acceptable for people to blame their dissatisfaction with our social services on the persecuted, humiliated and traumatised Syrian people.

This is wrong. It is the deepest, profoundest wrong; it is everything that we teach our children not to be. It is unkind.

Trump announced this ban on Holocaust Memorial Day. A day when I think about my family in Budapest in 1944 when the tanks rolled into the city and the Nazi roundup began. My family were Jewish refugees so attacks on refugees hit me particularly hard. But it could have been any of us on those boats crossing those inky waters to Europe and praying, praying that you wouldn’t die under those bombs; that it wouldn’t be your child as their lungs fill up with poisoned gas.

“Now is the time we need kindness most”: Romola Garai on why we must all fight to stand up for refugees