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David Lammy has insisted Shamima Begum won’t be returning to the UK.

The Foreign Secretary’s feedback come after Donald Trump’s incoming counter-terrorism chief referred to as for the repatriation of British members of so-called Islamic State (IS) being held in Syrian jail camps.

Sebastian Gorka mentioned any nation which needs to be seen as a “serious ally” of the US ought to decide to the worldwide struggle towards the extremist group by taking again residents at the moment languishing within the north east of Syria.

But the Foreign Secretary mentioned the Government would “always put British security interests first and the safeguarding of our population”.

He informed ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “Shamima Begum will not be coming back to the UK. It’s gone right through the courts. She’s not a UK national.

“We won’t be bringing her again to the UK. We’re actually clear about that.

“We will act in our security interests. And many of those in those camps are dangerous, are radicals.”

He added that a few of them, in the event that they had been to return to the UK, “would have to be, frankly, jailed as soon as they arrived”.

Ms Begum was 15 when she travelled from Bethnal Green, east London, into territory managed by IS in 2015.

Elsewhere, Mr Lammy mentioned the “intensity” of the “rhetoric” from Donald Trump will be “destabilising”.

The US President-elect recommended in a press convention earlier this week that America might annex Greenland in addition to the Panama Canal, which he claimed had been in danger from the affect of Russia and China.

Mr Lammy mentioned he believes Mr Trump’s remarks come from his considerations about US financial safety.

Asked whether or not the US needs to be allowed to purchase Greenland, he informed BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think that we know from Donald Trump’s first term that the intensity of his rhetoric and the unpredictability sometimes of what he said can be destabilising.

“He did it with Nato. But actually, in follow, he despatched extra troops to Europe beneath his administration. He despatched the primary javelins and weapons to Ukraine beneath his administration.

“Here, I suspect on Greenland what he’s targeting is his concerns about Russia and China in the Arctic, is his concerns about national economic security.

“He recognises I’m certain that ultimately Greenland at present is a kingdom of Denmark.

“There is a debate in Greenland about their own self-determination. But behind it I think are his concerns about the Arctic.”

Mr Lammy is amongst Labour politicians who’ve beforehand criticised Mr Trump, who he as soon as branded “a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath”.

But in November the Foreign Secretary insisted his previous feedback had been “old news”.