UK's nationality Bill puts citizenship of Indian origin Britons at risk

Nationality and Borders Bill absolves a government from the need to give 'notice of decision to deprive a person of citizenship'

British Home Secretary Priti Patel, who migrated to the United King­dom from East Africa as a child, has introduced a Bill in the House of Commons, which, if passed in its current form, would have the powers to strip people of their citizenship without giving them notice.

The UK authorities’ right to deprive British nationals of their citizenship was enacted in 2005 by a left-of-centre Labour party government of Prime Minister Tony Blair, after the London bombings by Is­lam­ist groups in which 52 people died in the city’s public transport system. Its use increased when the Con­servative party-Liberal Demo­crat coalition came