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Nationality and Borders Bill

Proceeding contribution from Baroness Verma (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Monday, 28 February 2022. It occurred during Debate on bills on Nationality and Borders Bill.

I was not intending to intervene, but may I ask my noble friend the Minister whether there is any major change to the current law that forces the commentary that my noble friend has just made? I have seen on WhatsApp groups worried people and citizens of this country with a lot of misinformation, and I have gone through the Bill and fact sheets and tried to get my head around what this is about—apart from the fact that we want to make sure that people are aware when their citizenship may be taken away, when they cannot be reached, and that is not based on anything other than their performing a criminal or terrorist act.

May I have some clarification? Sitting here, I have listened very carefully to every contribution made today, and while there are lawyers among us who know the details very well, ordinary citizens out there—people in groups with WhatsApp messages going around—are very frightened. They feel very scared, and they need to know that this is not the case.

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Reference

819 c594 

Session

2021-22

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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