Perhaps not hypocrisy per se, but there is definitely something strange about a Home Sec who wants to enhance powers to strip citizenship from naturalised and dual citizenship holding Britons, given her own background. Clause 9 of NABB will do that; [1/5]
https://twitter.com/ThatAsianDude_/status/1477996970543357953
but it's high time we consider the root power itself.
The current iteration of the power is contained in the British Nationality Act 1981. If you're a Windrush victim, that will be depressingly familiar - it is one of the key pieces of legal architecture, [2/5]
The current iteration of the power is contained in the British Nationality Act 1981. If you're a Windrush victim, that will be depressingly familiar - it is one of the key pieces of legal architecture, [2/5]
along with the Immigration Act 1971, which removed Windrush migrants and their descendants' automatic right (w/o registration) to citizenship in the Mother Country, to which they had come to take up employment post WW2. It laid the base for the hostile environment. [3/5]
Here it is, in all its (in)glory - S 40 of the British Nationality Act 1981. Clause 4A is where the Secretary of State acquires the right to make a person stateless if they are naturalised, and have the theoretical right to citizenship somewhere else. [4/5] 
While the extant demand is for the removal of Clause 9 - which is just removal of the notice provision - b/c NABB is plowing through the legislative process, we, at some point, need to overturn the root power. #StopNABB #NationalityAndBordersBill [5/5]
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