Kemi Badenoch blasts Nigel Farage after he hints ISIS bride Shamima Begum should be allowed back to UK
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KEMI Badenoch tore into Nigel Farage after he hinted Shamima Begum should be allowed to return to Britain. She said a Conservative government would never “take back terrorists” otherwise there is no deterrent. She added: “Citizenship means committing to a country and wanting its success.
![[Kemi Badenoch, new leader of the UK Conservative Party, speaking at a podium.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-uks-conservative-party-announced-945899102.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
"It’s not an international travel document for crime tourism.”. It comes after Reform UK leader Mr Farage said he was “now thoughtful” about her return to the UK. He told ITV “instinctively” it is not something he would want to do. But added: “I’m now thoughtful.
![[Nigel Farage in an interview discussing Shamima Begum's return to the UK.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2015-return-uk-ive-never-962924590.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
"I don’t classify her as an ISIS, an all-out ISIS killer.”. And said that he believes her to be “a lesser part of the equation”. It comes after Donald Trump’s incoming counter-terrorism chief called for the repatriation of British members of ISIS held in Syrian prison camps.
![[Video grab of Shamima Begum from the BBC documentary, *The Shamima Begum Story*.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/shamima-begum-story-bbc-pa-797647110_962e38.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
