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The calls for Abd El Fattah to be stripped of his UK citizenship have, as Emily Thornberry points out, scant support in UK law.
Yet its alarming how many seem to think that the UK government should have the power to deprive persons of citizenship because they have expressed obnoxious opinions in the past.
UK citizenship law is a frightful mess and in need of reform. As part of that reform, it should be enacted that those who have gained UK citizenship either by naturalization or by descent can be deprived of their citizenship only by a court, not by ministerial decision, and only after the presentation and examination of evidence that the citizenship was obtained under extraordinary circumstances of deliberate misrepresentation or as part of a criminal enterprise.
Citizenship should never be a privilege to be granted or revoked according to the whim of Telegraph readers.