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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Revealed: UK’s ‘racist’ system of stripping citizenship

The UK is stripping Britons of their citizenship in a “racist two-tier system”, according to a damning new report that reveals that Britain is the only G20 country to do so en masse.

Since 2010, citizenship has been revoked from more than 200 people on the grounds of “public good” – a total surpassed only by Bahrain and Nicaragua – according to the report, which was produced by the Runnymede Trust and Reprieve. In contrast, France resorted to the measure only 16 times between 2002 and 2020.

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