We WON’T let Shamima back in UK – no matter how much Trump’s top aide begs, Foreign Sec slams as Labour in row with US
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SHAMIMA Begum will NOT be allowed back in Britain, despite calls from Donald Trump's aide, David Lammy vowed today. The Foreign Secretary hit back at demands from Trump's counter-terror chief Sebastian Gorka to deal with the ISIS bride domestically. Mr Lammy said: "Shamima Begum will not be coming back to the UK.
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"It's gone right through the courts. She's not a UK national. "We will not be bringing her back to the UK. We're really clear about that. "We will act in our security interests. "And many of those in those camps are dangerous, are radicals.". A row over the Jihadi bride erupted yesterday after Mr Gorka declared that any country wanting to be a "serious ally" of the US must take back its citizens that joined death-cult ISIS and are now languishing in Syrian camps.
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He said: "Any nation which wishes to be seen as a serious ally and friend of the most powerful nation in the world should act in a fashion that reflects that serious commitment. "That is doubly so for the UK, which has a very special place in President Trump’s heart, and we would all wish to see the ‘special relationship’ fully re-established.".
Blasting the call, Mr Lammy declared that the government will "always put British security interests first". Begum is believed to be one of 20 women, 40 children and 10 men born in Britain being held in a camp. The Jihadi sympathiser was 15 when she travelled from her home in Bethnal Green, in East London to ISIS-controlled territory in 2015.
