A mum-of-three booked an £8,000 dream holiday for her young family – only to have her bid for a passport denied by officials claiming she was not British. Gemma Tones, from Whitstable, has endured a five-month bureaucratic battle with the Home Office to secure the vital travel documents ahead of the trip of a lifetime to Portugal next month. The 30-year-old was born in Yorkshire to a British father and Italian mother, has never left the country, is registered to vote, receives child benefits and pays taxes. But officials said the nursery nurse could not derive British citizenship from her dad …
