Palestinian migrants have been granted the right to live in the UK after applying through a scheme meant for Ukrainian refugees.

A family of six seeking to flee Gaza have been allowed to join their brother in Britain after an immigration judge ruled that the Home Office’s rejection of their application breached their human rights.

The family had made their application through the Ukraine Family Scheme and the decision to accept their case came despite warnings by lawyers for the Home Office that it could open the “floodgates” to “the admission of all those in conflict zones with family in the UK”.

Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said the case showed changes to human rights laws were needed so parliament, not judges, controlled who could settle in the UK.

It is the latest in a series of controversial decisions by immigration tribunals revealed by The Telegraph, which include the case of an Albanian criminal whose deportation was halted partly because of his young son’s aversion to foreign chicken nuggets.

The Palestinian family, a mother, father and four children aged seven to 18, had seen their home destroyed by an air strike and were living in a Gaza refugee camp with daily threats to their lives from Israeli military attacks.