Alfie Evans WALL OF SILENCE: Anger as Jeremy Hunt and Theresa May REFUSE to speak on case

Alfie’s parents Tom Evans and Kate James failed in their latest attempt to persuade judges to let them move the 23-month-year old to the Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital in Rome for further treatment.

They had said Alfie has defied doctors’ expectations and his continued survival amounted to a significant change of circumstances that merited a review.

But yesterday three Court of Appeal judges dismissed a challenge to a High Court decision made on Tuesday that the youngster should not be taken abroad.

The Department of Health told Express.co.uk that these decisions will continue to be left in the hands of the courts.

British MEP Steven Woolfe has said he sent letters to Mr Hunt on March 27 and April 9 asking for intervention in Alfie’s case but had so far been met with silence.

In a Twitter post addressed to the Health Secretary on Monday, Mr Woolfe posted a copy of his final letter, and said: “Critical time for Alfie Evans. I’ve written to you twice; no response yet. I publish my final letter to you now.

“Still time for you to draft consent order to allow Alfie to go to Italy.

“The court allows Alder Hey to withdraw treatment, while others offer treatment."

Speaking to Sky News on Tuesday, the MEP condemned the UK High Court’s decision the previous day to stop providing Alfie’s life support against his parents’ wishes.

“I think it’s not just the legal system, it’s also the medical system and the Trust themselves.

“What I find in my time looking at this case and previous to that the Ashya King and also Charlie Gard, is that we have an institutional arrogance.

“A belief that they can never do anything wrong.

“And as a consequence of that, they are willing to make the decision to end life, notwithstanding the fact that there are alternative options out there.

“Take the case of Ashya King, they said very clearly, the Trust, that the child would die and there was no way and they had to end life.

“It took the father taking the child out of the country and now what do we know about Aisha King? Perfectly alive.

“And in this case of Alfie Evans, Alfie Evans has now been briefing for 19 hours when the Hospital Trust told Justice Hayden in February that once you extubate he would be dead within minutes or at least a very short period of time.”

Yesterday, Mr Evans told the Daily Star Online that the government is “not interested” in Alfie and that the Prime Minister is too busy.

“Theresa May could be doing so much more to save Alfie.

“Italy’s Foreign Minister contacted Boris Johnson, who would have notified the Prime Minister.

“She too interested in what is going on in Syria, in America, in this country and that country for my boy.

“She’s not interested in one of the biggest priorities that could potentially cause uproar for this country in the future.

“That’s the way we treat children with disabilities in this country.

“We’ve tried everything to reach out to the government. Through MEPS, everything.

"They’re ignoring the situation now and I strongly advise them to speak out.”