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>She was born in the UK as a UK citizens to parents that were naturalised UK citizens.

Her parents were not UK citizens, they were Bangladeshi citizens making her Bangladeshi first. Her parents had "settled" status in the UK granting her UK citizenship but her parents were not UK citizens. It's literally in the wiki link you shared.

"Begum was born in London to immigrant parents of Bangladeshi Muslim origin and citizenship"



Oh sorry I didn’t realise your definition of “primary citizenship” required your parents to also be born in the country. How many generations back do we have to go before someone is allowed to have parents not born in the same country as them?

I naively assumed that given she was born in the UK to legally settled parents, given British citizenship in the UK at birth, grew up in the UK, was educated in the UK, radicalised in the UK. That would make her “primary citizenship” British. But obviously not, she’s obviously secretly a citizen of a country she’s never visited, just hiding in the UK until she could show her true colours.

What’s your view of people with mixed heritage? If one of her parents was born in the UK so she’s “50% British”, does that make her primary citizenship British? What if she was 25% or 75% how about 90%? Where do you draw the line?




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