has insisted Shamima Begum will not be returning to the UK.
The Foreign Secretary’s comments come after ‘s incoming counter-terrorism chief called for the repatriation of British members of so-called Islamic State (IS) being held in Syrian prison camps.
Sebastian Gorka said any nation which wishes to be seen as a “serious ally” of the US should commit to the international fight against the extremist group by taking back citizens currently languishing in the north east of Syria.
But the Foreign Secretary said the Government would “always put British security interests first and the safeguarding of our population”.
He told 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 will not be bringing her back to the UK. We’re really clear about that.
Shamima Begum and David Lammy (Image: GMB)
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“We will act in our security interests. And many of those in those camps are dangerous, are radicals.”
He added that some of them, if they were 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 controlled by IS in 2015.
Elsewhere, Mr Lammy said the “intensity” of the “rhetoric” from can be “destabilising”.
The US President-elect suggested in a press conference earlier this week that America could annex Greenland as well as the Panama Canal, which he claimed were at risk from the influence of and China.
Mr Lammy said he believes Mr Trump’s remarks come from his concerns about US economic security.
Asked whether the US should be allowed to buy Greenland, he told Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think that we know from ‘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 in fact, in practice, he sent more troops to Europe under his administration. He sent the first javelins and weapons to under his administration.
“Here, I suspect on Greenland what he’s targeting is his concerns about and China in the Arctic, is his concerns about national economic security.
“He recognises I’m sure that in the end Greenland today 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 among Labour politicians who have previously criticised Mr Trump, who he once branded “a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath”.
But in November the Foreign Secretary insisted his past comments were “old news”.