🚨BREAKING: The House of Lords has voted to remove clause 9 of the Nationality and Borders Bill, which seeks to create new powers to strip British nationals of their citizenship without even telling them.
This is a huge win. 1/3
This is a huge win. 1/3
MPs must follow suit and strike this discriminatory provision from the Bill.
Citizenship stripping disproportionately affects ethnic minority British communities, who are made to feel like second class citizens. 2/3
Citizenship stripping disproportionately affects ethnic minority British communities, who are made to feel like second class citizens. 2/3
Thank you to everyone who has helped campaign against clause 9 and to all of the Peers who voted to remove it, including Baroness D'Souza, @SayeedaWarsi and Baroness Mobarik who made this intervention today. 3/3 theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
Reprieve director Maya Foa said: "Peers have heard the outcry against this attempted power grab by the Home Secretary. Now MPs must listen, and strike this discriminatory provision from the Bill."
"The Government's powers to strip citizenship are already the broadest in the G20. They are used disproportionately against people from ethnic minority communities. Today the House of Lords said: enough."
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