1. James Chuter Ede, Parliamentary Debates, HC, 7 July 1948, vol. 453, cc. 385–510. On the British Nationality Act and Commonwealth citizenship see Randall Hansen, Citizenship and Immigration in Post-War Britain: The Institutional Origins of a Multicultural Nation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 35–61; Nicholas Deakin, ‘The British Nationality Act of 1948: A Brief Study of the Political Mythology of Race Relations’, Race 11, 1 (1969), pp. 77–83.