An anti-immigration party’s own MP had violated the exact rules it enforced against immigrants

Evidence

It put her party, the VVD, in an awkward position. The party’s policy was to restrict immigration, and it strongly favoured measures taken against immigrants who had not been honest during the procedures of their asylum requests. The policy referred to the precedent of other immigrants who had lost their Dutch citizenship for faking names and dates of birth. Now, it turned out, an MP for their own party had done the same. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1645

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• CANDY: Perfect irony anecdote: the party of strict asylum enforcement discovers its star immigrant broke the rules.