‘British’ MPS quit in Australia

Five Australian MPS have been forced to resign after Britain’s Home Office did not renounce their British citizenship before the last election, leaving them ineligible to stand.

In a further twist in Australia’s dual citizenship saga, the country’s High Court ruled that Katy Gallagher, an opposition Labor MP in the upper house, was a British citizen when elected in 2016 and therefore barred from standing by the constitution.

The decision prompted four other MPS who were previously British citizens to resign.