JOANNA LUMLEY - LUMLEY THREATENS TO QUIT BRITAIN

LUMLEY THREATENS TO QUIT BRITAIN

Actress JOANNA LUMLEY has threatened to quit Britain if former Nepalese Gurkha soldiers lose their battle to stay in the country.
The Indian-born British actress, whose father fought alongside the Gurkhas in the British army, has pledged her support to hundreds of former Nepalese Gurkha soldiers as they began their legal fight over settlement rights.
But Lumley claims she will hand back her British passport and become an Indian national if the veteran soldiers lose their battle.
She says, "There is something wrong here. If they don't put it right I think there will be hell to pay. I feel so strongly about this.
"If this should go wrong for the Gurkhas I'm prepared to hand back my British passport and I'll take up Indian nationality.
"I was born in India; I had to pay to belong to this country. I was a British subject but not a citizen. If they despise them so much then they can despise me."