In the wake of Windrush scandal, its worth remembering that just 5 years ago @spectator published an article falsely claiming heavily pregnant women were arriving at Heathrow so they cld give birth on NHS and secure British citizenship for their babies: spectator.co.uk/2013/02/the-ne…
@spectator This was obviously & demonstrably false - British born children of migrants have had no automatic right to British citizenship since the 1981 British Nationality Act, which came into force in 1983. Yet the claim, by a British consultant and Professor, is still there, uncorrected.
@spectator Would it be too much to ask, @FraserNelson , in light of what we have seen over the past year, that you add a note below this article pointing out that this inflammatory claim is utterly baseless, and apologising for printing it in the @spectator ?
