Latest editorial
[Caspar Rae / Creative Commons]
THE Home Office must launch an urgent review of its trivial and outdated British citizenship test, peers are demanding today.
Since 2002, people who want to become British citizens or permanent residents must prove they have sufficient knowledge about life in Britain, by passing the Home Office’s test.
People applying for indefinite leave to remain who fail to pass can face severe delays to their settlement — and even deportation and loss of their livelihoods.
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors
