Exclusive: Appeals against being stripped of UK citizenship reach record levels

The figures track the rise in people losing British citizenship in the past decade, as the government tries to make the process easier.

By Freddie Hayward

The number of appeals against UK government decisions to deprive people of their British citizenship reached a record high in 2018, the New Statesman can reveal.

Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show the number of people who lodged an appeal rose from five in 2011 to 88 in 2018. The Home Office said it would not provide more recent figures because they were deemed a “subset of data due for future publication”. It did not say when they would be published.