Labour covertly drops ban on allowing asylum seekers to claim British citizenship

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Labour has covertly dropped a ban on allowing asylum seekers to claim British citizenship.The hushed-up U-turn was the result of a legal challenge which argued that denying the privilege to illegal migrants infringed human rights laws and international treaties.New documents signed off by the Home Secretary will let illegal arrivals get their hands on British passports, which Shabana Mahmood's department batted away as a "minor change".This week, Ms Mahmood is setting out the Immigration and Asylum Bill tomorrow, which will also include plans to recruit hundreds of people to serve as adjudicators in magistrate-style reforms to the appeals process.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The undocumented asylum seekers will now have to argue that their arrival in Britain was "outside their control", the Daily Mail exposed.The new policy says that it will be "normally appropriate to disregard overstaying, illegal entry, or arrival without a required entry clearance or electronic travel...

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