We carry enormous shame, ever greater, at the treatment of Shamima Begum after Friday’s judgment by the Court of Appeal.
We failed to support a community, failed to stop a minor travelling on a false passport to a war zone, and failed to warn her parents of a known risk.
We allowed, for political popularism under the guise of national security, to strip her citizenship and make her stateless – something we all should be concerned about. After the death of her three children, she has paid a terrible price for a mistake as a 15-year-old when targeted and trafficked to be a child bride.
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