The Independent splashed Reprieve and Runnymede’s report into citizenship stripping on its front page. The paper also published an accompanying leader column and a comment piece by senior international reporter Bel Trew.
Reprieve’c CEO Maya Foa was quoted. “The previous government stripped British trafficking victims of citizenship for political gain, and the current government has just expanded these extreme and secretive powers. The nine million people whose rights could be taken away by the next Home Secretary have every reason to be worried about what a future authoritarian government might do,” she said.
“Treating people with a connection to another country as second class citizens is an affront to the foundational British principle of equality before the law. We are British, not Brit-ish. These discriminatory powers must be abolished.”
Middle East Eye also covered the report launch.