Priti Patel said: ‘Our job is to keep our country safe. We don’t need people who have done harm and left our country to be part of a death cult and to perpetrate that ideology.’
The teenager who fled Britain to join Isis inShamima Begum, 19, remains in the refugee camp where her baby son died within weeks of being born in February this year.
She was tracked down earlier this year and said she wanted to head back to the UK but her British citizenship was revoked.Begum was one of three schoolgirls to leave Britain to join Isis in 2015 She told The Sun: ‘We cannot have people who would do us harm allowed to enter our country – and that includes this woman.
‘My mental health situation is not the best. My physical health is okay. I am still young and I do not get sick. That is not my problem. Mentally, though, I am in a really bad way. I need therapy to deal with my grief. It is so hard. I have lost all my children.
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