Exiling her is a temporary fix but solves nothing.
There is a big difference between accepting that the UK has a responsibility to see she faces justice and arguing that she “needs saving”.
His in-tray features: Covid, mental health, NHS reform…and social care. He’s set to be the most pressured Health Secretary since Lansley.
We don’t read her as a quitter. And the next election may come as early as 2023. But if she does step down before it, you read it here first.
Ministers believe that the present legal framework isn’t fit for purpose if prosecutions of returning terrorists are to be successful.
The Court of Appeal’s judgement in the Begum case is a reminder of wider issues – and the pledge in last December’s manifesto.
We were curious to know how big the proportion of objectors would be, to which the answer is: a fifth.
The Home Secretary is afloat on a sargasso sea of returning jihadis, human rights laws, bewildering intelligence, gaps in the law – and a shrieking media.
She could give us invaluable insights into jihadi recruitment techniques, and if deradicalised become a valuable asset.
One thinks of the need for such as a measure as justice-related and security-related. But it would also send a powerful signal.
Postmodernism strips the likes of Shamima Begum of personal responsibility and judges her solely by ethnicity, religion and class.
“It’s also important that we treat them fairly…with justice tempered with a bit of mercy.”
There’s a difference between skiving school with your friends and travelling to Syria to pledge your allegiance to a death cult.