Sebastian Gorka said any nation that wishes to be seen as a “serious ally” of the US should commit to the international fight against the extremist group by taking back citizens currently languishing in the northeast of Syria.
But the foreign secretary said the government would “always put British security interests first and the safeguarding of our population”.
Meanwhile, prime minister Sir Keir Starmer said repatriation of British nationals who went to join Isis in Syria would be dealt with on a “case-by-case basis” dependent on national security interests.
Ms Begum was 15 when she travelled from Bethnal Green, east London, into territory controlled by Isis in 2015. She was “married off” to an Isis fighter and was stripped of her British citizenship in February 2019.
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