I must confess that this Private Members Bill was not something I was aware of till today.
It is a Private Members Bill (so introduced by individual Members of the Commons or or the House of Lords, not by the government), but which has government backing. Indeed it was prepared by the Home Office, "with the consent of Lord Hay of Ballyore, the Member in Charge of the Bill", which is very unusual for a Private Members Bill. Normally a PMB needs to be written by the Member themselves, with the help of their own lawyers.
It has already passed all stages in the Commons and had its Second Reading in the Lords today.
It is a very simple Bill and adds a special route for Irish citizens residing in the UK to register as British citizens.
Currently Irish citizens need to naturalise as British citizens, which means having to do an LITUK test and English language test and meet the usual absence and physical presence requirements.
The Bill preserves the five year absence and good character requirements, but dispenses with LITUK and English language tests and a physical presence requirement.
So Irish citizens will have a simpler and slightly cheaper pathway to British citizenship than the current naturalisation process.
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