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Hello and welcome to the Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth.

Now Fraser, congratulations to your wife Linda because this week she has been naturalised

as a British citizen. You write about this in your telegraph column this week.

But you also make the point that it's an interesting process and an interesting tone

that the Brits take compared to other countries that welcome new citizens. Tell us about it.

Yeah, I started off thinking this was all faintly ridiculous. I mean Linda is a, you know,

she's a refugee child and that birth of a parents for the Soviet. So they came to Sweden

and she's quite sort of grateful to Sweden and will always be because they gave her parents

shelter, they taught her her home language check, that's what they call it in Sweden.

And she's got a sort of refugees gratitude to her adopted country and then she came to live here

15 years ago with me. So she didn't want to leave her Swedish citizenship behind and I can

understand that. She should not be due at national. She is due at national. Yeah.

The big thing is not every country allows that. I think the Dutch for example will demand that you

drop your other citizenship if you want to be Dutch. And certainly India doesn't do that. But

the rest of the next wife got into trouble there because if she she was partly her immigration

status as partly explained by the facts that she could not be British unless she forfeited her

Indian identity. And I can understand why you'd want to keep your original passport. Do you

have your Chinese passport? No, China doesn't recognize your national. Right. So you would have

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