As is clear from my timeline, I don’t often agree with Lord Moylan: but I do (subject to using slightly different language every now and then) very much agree with him on this.
https://twitter.com/danielmgmoylan/status/1491934899854577665
It is deeply unsatisfactory that we have ended up in a situation where there is a second class of citizens whose citizenship can be removed at the wide discretion of the Home Secretary.
It is also wrong that people with a right to citizenship (or, I’d add, anyone who wants to be naturalised) has to pay extraordinarily high fees - effectively a tax - to register or apply.
As Lord Moylan says, this is the result of a failure to think seriously about what citizenship is: a failure that leads to the offensive incoherence of the Home Office assertion that citizenship is a privilege not a right (an assertion Lord Moylan rightly rejects).
Wider lesson: even when you strongly disagree with someone on a wide range of issues, you can find that you agree with them on some important things. So keep listening. It’s also part of what makes politics interesting and keeps it working.
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