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I'm going to speak to you[br]about the global refugee crisis,

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and my aim is to show you that this crisis

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is manageable, not unsolvable,

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but also show you that this is as much[br]about us and who we are

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as it is a trial of the refugees[br]on the front line.

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For me, this is not just[br]a professional obligation,

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because I run an NGO supporting refugees[br]and displaced people around the world.

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It's personal.

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I love this picture.

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That really handsome guy on the right,

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that's not me.

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That's my dad, Ralph, in London, in 1940

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with his father Samuel.

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They were Jewish refugees from Belgium.

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They fled the day the Nazis invaded.

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And I love this picture too.

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It's a group of refugee children

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arriving in England in 1946 from Poland.

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And in the middle is my mother, Mariam.

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She was sent to start a new life

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in a new country

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on her own

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at the age of 12.

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I know this:

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if Britain had not admitted refugees

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in the 1940s,

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I certainly would not be here today.

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Yet 70 years on, the wheel ha