In a fresh attempt to undermine the soaring popularity of Reform UK Party leader Nigel Farage, one of the nation’s leading corporate broadcasters, ITV News, has claimed in a headline that the Brexit leader “says government should consider allowing Shamima Begum back home.”
Begum, 25, is a hugely controversial figure in the United Kingdom, having left Britain to join the Islamic State at the age of just 15 in 2015. She was quickly married off and had three children, all of whom died. Begum began to change her tune in 2019, claiming she believed in “some British values” and claiming the Islamic State was too oppressive.
“I fled the caliphate. Now all I want to do is come home to Britain,” she told reporters. Begum was stripped of her British citizenship in the same year. She continues to challenge the decision and is currently living in a detention camp in Syria.
FARAGE.
Farage, who has been staunchly against returning Begum to the UK, was asked about the issue at Reform UK’s South East of England conference.
“I’ve never wanted to. I’ve instinctively never wanted to,” Farage said when asked about those who defected to ISIS returning to the UK. […]
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