Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL]

That is not sufficient to mollify me, because I am not talking about individual cases, I am talking about the principle. I have already enunciated the three principles laid down by previous Ministers that have now been reneged on. We can talk about individual cases until we are blue in the face, and there has been masses of correspondence. It is not necessary for us to sit around a table to talk about that. I will do that if it will convince the noble Lord that what we are saying is correct, but we want to eliminate the problem of statelessness among the original BNOs who did not manage to get the full citizenship to which they were entitled and which they had been promised by successive Governments. We want not just consideration of individual cases but a reaffirmation of the promises made by successive Governments now being reneged on by this one. I have no alternative but to withdraw the amendment, but I do so with great reluctance. Amendment 90 withdrawn.