Report on United Kingdom Immigrants Act 1962 which disguised changes to nationality law as an immigration measure. In general, immigration issues have overshadowed questions about citizenship whether Labour or the Conservatives have been in power. The removal of the Labour government and the establishment of a Conservative-led coalition government did not lead immediately to any significant change of direction although immigration policy became even more restrictive. Broadly speaking, policy has focused on curbing immigration, the enforcement of the social and economic exclusion of those without immigration status, naturalisation, and removing the unentitled physically from the country. In response to the growth in support for UKIP and to pressure from within the Conservative Party itself, there has been increasing emphasis on the need to restrict ‘EU migration’ without linking it in any coherent way to the privileged movement that UK citizens themselves enjoy throughout Europe. The Conservative Party is pledged to a referendum on EU membership if it wins the 2015 election and the Prime Minister David Cameron, who is not personally committed to leaving the EU, appears to have decreasing room for manoeuvre in his efforts to draw the heat from the issue. At the time of writing, the focus is increasingly on access to welfare by EU citizens rather than the principle of free movement itself where it is clear that there will be no concessions from the EU. Nationality has recently come back into focus following, as already discussed, changes to the law on deprivation and increased confiscation of passports but is still far from being a mainstream issue. Citizenship is rarely discussed except in the context of immigration or, increasingly, security and there are only limited and, to the general public, abstruse differences amongst the political parties. To an extent, this apparent vacuum of policy on citizenship is filled by the policies on immigration, current citizenship debates being viewable as relating to naturalisation policies which do, of course, deal with current immigrants. The 1997-2010 Labour government is widely regarded, even by its own leaders, as having allowed too much immigration and the Coalition government adopted the Conservative’s manifesto pledge to reduce ‘net migration’ to the tens of thousands, a target which it has little chance of meeting by the 2015 election. The smaller parties, which have no realistic hope of governing alone, can perhaps afford to be more equivocal, generous or extreme. Liberal Democrat policy, prior to entering into Coalition, was more nuanced and moderate than Conservative and even Labour electoral policy (Symonds 2012). The Green Party has no clearly stated policy on immigration at all, let alone citizenship, though it has issued a statement of principles. The United Kingdom Independence Party, whose dominant characteristic is its hostility to the EU, has no stated policy on citizenship other than a minimum five year waiting period (which is already effectively in place) although it is generally opposed to immigration whether from inside or outside the EU. It campaigned in the 2010 General Election on a policy of ‘freezing’ immigration for five years with only very limited entry thereafter, and ensuring greater compliance from those migrants already in the UK. Notable in very recent years is the rise of the British National Party and its entry into mainstream political life. It has had some limited and usually temporary success over several years in local council and European elections in more economically deprived areas such as east London and the north of England. However, this did not translate into gains in the 2010 General Election and, since then, the party appears to have lost votes to UKIP and currently has little impact. The BNP is broadly the current manifestation of previous far-right nationalistic parties such as the National Front, which flourished in the 1970s but did not go so far into the mainstream of achieving formal political power. It campaigned in 2010 on a policy of a complete end to immigration and, unusually for a political party, has a citizenship policy, vowing to review all recent grants of citizenship and RSCAS/EUDO-CIT-CR 2014/1 - © 2014 Authors 25