Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill

Yes, but! I am sure that the advice that the Minister received was given in good faith, but it does not coincide with the advice that we received in the Joint Committee and which we evaluated very carefully. In any case, leaving the convention on one side and going back to the main point that I made at the beginning of my earlier intervention, if we are to take citizenship seriously, we are inadvertently in this Bill, by the back door, introducing two levels of citizenship. Whether a person has citizenship somewhere else or not is not the issue; the issue is what British citizenship means. Some people may be subject to this provision and some may not. Surely that is a distinction in the quality of citizenship—potentially for everyone. That point should be taken very seriously, and I am quite certain that my noble friend will take it very seriously.