Citizen-stripping law for terror suspects 'medieval,' say campaigners
CIVIL rights campaigners launched an attack yesterday on “medieval” Tory plans to strip terror suspects of their British citizenship.
Home Secretary Theresa May’s proposed legislation will return to the Lords after MPs voted to overrule amendments made by peers.
Peers’ proposals to kick the idea into a parliamentary committee were rejected by MPs 305 to 239 and the government’s new amendments were then nodded through the Commons.
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