He wasn't, he was a human rights *advisor* in northern ireland, tells you all you need to know, probably okayed torture and assassination programs or some shit
Presumably another source of friction between the AG & other ministers. Someone must have advised that this is at least arguably lawful. Though you wonder how arguable & how comfortable those concerned will be with the position. A lot must rest on the word ‘normally’.
If the AG was consulted on this. It’s a policy change not secondary or primary legislation. And I don’t think Art 34 is well known. I doubt anyone at the Home Office has read RC51 from start to finish.
I don’t know, & you may well be right, but he may not be happy even if he wasn’t consulted. It seems very much the sort of issue where tensions appear to have arisen recently.
It is also contrary to at least the spirit of the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, both of which the UK has ratified.
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They claim to be competent not theatrical. Doesn't look like it.
This is a terrible policy change and should be reversed.
https://bsky.app/profile/colinyeo.bsky.social/post/3lhvf7od2lc2d
https://prcbc.org/reasserting-rights-to-british-citizenship-by-registration-the-requirement-of-good-character/