JEREMY Corbyn today said jihadi bride Shamima Begum should be allowed back into Britain and given support.
Despite the teen saying she did not regret fleeing to Syria to support ISIS, the Labour leader said the government's decision to strip her of British citizenship was a "very extreme manoeuvre".
Begum had been begging to come back to the UK to raise her newborn son, Jerah.
Mr Corbyn : "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 added: "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."
Begum was told this week she would lose her British citizenship after having shown no remorse for her terror links since being tracked down to a Syrian refugee camp last week.
But Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns blasted: "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?"
What we know so far:
- Shamima Begum, from Bethnal Green, London, fled the UK to join ISIS in 2015 aged 15
- The pregnant 19-year-old was then found in a refugee camp in Syria last week
- In interviews she said she wanted to return to the UK to raise her unborn baby
- Victims and relatives of the Manchester bombing innocents reacted with outrage after she claimed the bombing was "justified"
- She gave birth to her baby boy, whose dad is a Dutch jihadi, on Sunday
- Her family revealed the Home Office had revoked her UK citizenship
- She claims this decision is "unjust", and "heartbreaking" and she may try to move to Holland
Shamima fled from her family home in Bethnal Green in 2015 to join Islamic State and has sparked outrage by claiming the Manchester Arena terror attack was 'justified' in a recent interview.
The runaway schoolgirl even said she wasn't fazed by seeing severed heads in the bin, claiming it "made her stronger."
And speaking to Sky News next to her newborn son, she said people "should have sympathy towards me for everything I have been through".
But an official Home Office letter this week broke the news to the schoolgirl's "disappointed" family she would be stripped of her British citizenship.
- went on to urge the Begum family to make their daughter aware of the decision while adding she had the right to appeal.
She said she was "shocked" and it was "kind of heartbreaking" to find out the news.
The Home Office confirmed it could not strip someone of British citizenship if it left them stateless, but said she had dual British-Bangladesh nationality due to her parents being from Bangladesh.
However Bangladesh authorities have refuted claims she was a citizen, saying there was "no question" she would be allowed to enter the country.
'BREACH OF HER RIGHTS'
Yesterday Labour's Diane Abbott said the Government could have breached the terror teen's human rights by withdrawing her citizenship.
She said it did not appear to be the case that she had committed acts of terrorism herself and may escape punishment as a result.
Ms Abbott said: "Whenever there are reasonable grounds to suspect that someone who is entitled to return to this country has either committed or facilitated acts of terrorism, they should be fully investigated and where appropriate prosecuted. This does not appear to be the case here.
"If the government is proposing to make Shamima Begum stateless it is not just a breach of international human rights law but is a failure to meet our security obligations to the international community.
"Potential citizenship rights elsewhere are entirely irrelevant. Our fundamental freedoms do not need to be compromised; they are perfectly compatible with our safety."
Why and how was Shamima Begum stripped of her British citizenship?
The Home Secretary's power to deprive someone of their British citizenship is covered by Section 40 British Nationality Act 1981.
It states the Home Sec must be satisfied "it would be conducive to the public good to deprive person of his or her British nationality.
The official regulations add "that s/he would not become stateless as a result of the deprivation."
Home Office guidance states that 'Conduciveness to the Public Good' means "depriving in the public interest on the grounds of involvement in terrorism, espionage, serious organised crime, war crimes or unacceptable behaviours."
If Shamima Begum decides to appeal the decision to impose deprivation of citizenship order she has 28 days to appeal to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission
Earlier this week a group of Labour MPs split away from the party - noting his soft stance on security as a huge problem.
Mike Gapes said on Monday after he ditched the party: "Jeremy Corbyn and those around him are on the wrong side on so many international issues – from Russia, to Syria, to Venezuela. A Corbyn Labour government would threaten our national security and international alliances."
And it's not the first time the leftie Labour boss has gone soft on terrorists and other dubious groups - he has a long record on it.
He invited IRA volunteers to the House of Commons just days after an IRA bomb killed five people at the Tory party conference in Brighton.
And he met with Sinn Fein's President Gerry Adams regularly during the height of the troubles.
In 2015 was asked repeatedly to condemn IRA violence in Northern Ireland but would only say he "condemned all bombing".
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
Jeremy Corbyn
Mr Corbyn also described the death of Bin Laden as a "tragedy".
He's also said he is "not happy with the shoot to kill policy in general". He told the BBC in 2015: "I think that is quite dangerous and I think it can often be counterproductive."
The Labour boss once called terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah friends - which he later said he regretted. After the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were pinned on Russia, Mr Corbyn sparked fury from his MPs and voters across the country when he refused to directly blame them despite Britain's spooks having reams of evidence.
MPs accused him of appeasement after he said Moscow should be able to run their own tests on the chemicals.
Last year Mr Corbyn faced uproar again when he made a visit to the graves of Palestinian terror leaders linked to the massacre of athletes in Munich.
The teenager's family have said they are “disappointed” by the Home Office's decision, said their lawyer Tasnime Akunjee.
He tweeted: "We are considering all legal avenues to challenge this decision."
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