Paris Terrorist Attacks Debate

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Douglas Carswell

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Paris Terrorist Attacks

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Point of Order
Monday 16th November 2015

(8 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Theresa May Portrait Mrs May
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What is important is that we have the capabilities that we need, and I can reassure my hon. Friend that we will be ensuring that we do indeed have the capabilities that we need.

Douglas Carswell Portrait Mr Douglas Carswell (Clacton) (UKIP)
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I ask this in a genuine spirit of inquiry, and it is a sensitive area, but would the Home Secretary ever consider withdrawing citizenship from some who sought to promote and act on the basis of an ideology that was so repulsive that it threatened their fellow citizens?

Theresa May Portrait Mrs May
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Of course I do have it in my power to remove citizenship from individuals, and I have acted in that way on a number of occasions. While this is subject to some limitations in relation to ensuring that people are not made stateless, we did enhance our ability to remove citizenship in the Immigration Act 2014.

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