Stripping alleged militants of their British citizenship and leaving them in refugee camps rather than bringing them back to face trial threatens to create a “breeding ground of terrorists tomorrow”, Tory former chancellor Norman Lamont has warned.
The Tory peer sounded his concerns at Westminster over “passing the buck”, as the Government was told revoking the nationality of Shamima Begum, who ran off as a schoolgirl to join so-called Islamic State (IS), was a form of capital punishment that has left her “the breathing dead”.
