Jeremy Corbyn says Shamima Begum SHOULD be let back into Britain and 'given our support' after ISIS bride was stripped of UK citizenship
- Labour leader says the teenager has 'a right to return' as she was born in Britain
- Home Secretary Sajid Javid revoked Shamima Begum's UK citizenship yesterday
- The case hinged on Begum's Bangladeshi heritage on her mother's side of family
- But the Bangladeshi foreign ministry said yesterday she would not be allowed in
- The 19-year-old ISIS bride cannot be left 'stateless' under strict international law
- Jeremy Corbyn has said jihadi bride Shamima Begum should be allowed back into Britain and given the 'support that she needs' by authorities.The Labour leader argued the teenager, who gave birth to a baby boy in a refugee camp on Sunday, had 'a right to return' after fleeing the country to support ISIS.He also said the decision by Home Secretary Sajid Javid to strip the 19-year-old, originally from east London, of her citizenship was a 'very extreme manoeuvre'.His comments have met a frosty reception, with Conservative backbencher David TC Davies branding the Labour leader's view ‘extraordinary’.The Monmouth MP told MailOnline: 'This woman has shown no remorse whatsoever for her actions.‘She has heaped praise on the ISIS fighters she ran off with and … expressed support for the horrendous terrorist atrocity in Manchester.‘Her presence in Britain would put wider society at risk and it is extraordinary that she now has the support of the leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition, who wants to become prime minister.’ Other MPs have also spoken out following Mr Corbyn's comments.Andrea Jenkyns, Tory MP for Morley and Outwood, said: 'So Corbyn believes ISIS Bride should be let back into the UK and supported.'Why does he always seem to side with those who are enemies of our great country.'While Lee McCluskey, siding with Sajid Javid, wrote on Twitter: 'We have a home secretary who talks sense and will do what many Brits want which is for Shamina Begum to be denied entry back into the uk providing its within the law.'Dianne Abbott and Corbyn would invite all ISIS in for tea and biscuits.'The Labour leader's comments came during an interview with ITV, in which he said Begum was entitled to support from the British government.
The Labour leader said that the teenager, who gave birth to a baby boy in a refugee camp on Sunday, had 'a right to return' after fleeing the country to support IS
The remorseless 19-year-old, pictured here in an interview, is hanging her hopes on her captured husband Yago Riedijk being sent back to the Netherlands
Shamima Begum and her friend fled to Syria by flying to Istanbul and getting a bus across Turkey to the ISIS capital, Raqqa. She moved to Mayadin with her jihadi husband Yago Riedijk but fled Baghuz when he was captured and is now in al-Hawl 'She was born in Britain, she has that right to remain in Britain and obviously a lot of questions she has to answer but also some support that she needs,' he told ITV.'She obviously has, in my view, a right to return to Britain. On that return she must face a lot of questions about everything she's done. And at that point any action may or may not be taken.'I think the idea of stripping somebody of their citizenship when they were born in Britain is a very extreme manoeuvre.'Indeed I question the right of the home secretary to have these powers when the original law was brought in by Theresa May when she was home secretary.'Mr Javid previously stated Begum's son Jerah - apparently named after a 7th century Islamic warlord - could still be British despite his mother losing her citizenship.However shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the Government 'could not subvert the rule of law' just because it is 'not convenient'.She told BBC Radio 4's World At One: 'You cannot strip people of their British nationality under international law if it will leave them stateless.'That's the legal position and we are a country of laws.'It comes as peers demanded the 650-year-old Treason Act be updated to prosecute returning jihadists who have 'betrayed' Britain.
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