UK should consider letting IS members return, terror watchdog says

The authorities should see repatriating British members of the Islamic State radical (IS) who are being held successful Syrian detention camps, the government's autarkic coercion authorities reviewer Jonathan Hall KC has said.

Mr Hall's comments travel aft Donald Trump's incoming counter-terrorism chief, Sebastian Gorka, said that if the UK wanted to beryllium seen arsenic a "serious ally" of the US it should instrumentality backmost its citizens who joined IS.

One Briton who travelled to Syria to enactment the jihadist question was Shamima Begum, who near London arsenic a teen successful 2015 and was stripped of her UK citizenship successful 2019.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy has insisted Ms Begum "will not beryllium coming backmost to the UK".

In an interrogation with the Times, Gorka said that "any federation which wishes to beryllium seen to beryllium a superior state and person of the astir almighty federation successful the satellite should enactment successful a manner that reflects that superior commitment" erstwhile asked if the UK should beryllium forced to instrumentality IS members back.

"That is doubly truthful for the UK which has a precise peculiar spot successful President Trump's bosom and we would each privation to spot the 'special relationship' afloat re-established," helium said.

Since the autumn of IS successful 2019, thousands of radical linked to the radical - mostly women and children - person been detained successful camps successful bluish Syria.

Since the toppling of erstwhile President Bashar al-Assad's regime, there are fears the upheaval could endanger the information of the detention camps.

Ms Begum is among the prisoners successful specified camps, aft travelling to Syria arsenic a 15-year-old to enactment IS.

She joined an Islamic State combatant soon aft arriving and went connected to person 3 children, nary of whom survived.

Her UK citizenship was stripped connected nationalist information grounds successful 2019 and she has exhausted her ineligible means of appeal.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight, Mr Hall said that portion Ms Begum's communicative is simply a compelling one, politicians should look to the bigger representation astir the equilibrium of nationalist security.

"Repatriation would not beryllium motivation absolution, if idiosyncratic came backmost it wouldn't forestall them from perchance being prosecuted for what they've done," helium said.

"It could beryllium rather a pragmatic determination successful the wide interests of nationalist information to bring idiosyncratic back.

"There is evidently immoderate nationalist information payment of leaving radical determination due to the fact that you don't person to show them," helium told the programme.

"On the different hand, determination haven't yet been immoderate attacks successful Europe by anyone who has been repatriated successful this mode and if they are near there... and past they escape, they would beryllium overmuch much dangerous, actually, to the UK."

The US and galore countries successful Europe person repatriated citizens from Syrian detention camps earlier putting them connected proceedings and imprisoning them.

During a treatment of Gorka's comments connected Thursday, David Lammy told Good Morning Britain that Ms Begum's lawsuit had gone done the courts and that she was "not a UK national".

He said that the authorities would "act successful our information interests. And galore of those successful those camps are dangerous, are radicals."

Conservative person Kemi Badenoch has besides said Ms Begum should not return.

"Citizenship means committing to a state and wanting its success. It's not an planetary question papers for transgression tourism," she said.