Shamima Begum won't come back to UK, says Lammy, after Trump ally call

UK should consider letting IS members return: government lawyer

The UK government should consider letting British members of the Islamic State return to the UK, the government's independent terrorism legislation reviewer said on Friday. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight, Jonathan Hall KC said the government needs to look at the bigger picture when it comes to repatriating people and national security. "Repatriation would not be moral absolution, if someone came back it wouldn't prevent them from po…

Shamima Begum Not Coming Back to UK, Says Lammy

Jihadi bride Shamima Begum will not be coming back to the UK, Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said. Lammy made the remarks in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming counterterrorism chief calling for the UK to repatriate citizens who fought for the ISIS terrorist group and are being held in prison camps in Syria. Speaking to ITV’s “Good Morning Britain” on Thursday, Lammy said the government would “always put British security inte…

Shamima Begum's return to UK addressed by government after US calls

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the government would "act in our security interests"

Grim fate of Shamima Begum's ISIS bride friends and call that terrified family

As Jihadi bride Shamima Begum continues to fight to return to the UK, we look at what happened to her two schoolgirl friends who joined ISIS alongside her

Vote on whether Shamima Begum shoud ever be allowed back into the UK

David Lammy today insisted there was no way back for Shamima Begum, regardless of remarks by Sebastian Gorka, Donald Trump's counterterrorism chief.

Shamima Begum 'will not be allowed to return to UK' says David Lammy

There has been uncertainty on what will happen to London-born Begum since the fall of the Assad regime.