Shamima Begum can return to the UK to fight for citizenship, and she has every right to.

The Court of Appeal has ruled that Shamima Begum should be allowed to return to the UK to fight the decision to remove her British citizenship.

Ms Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015

Ms Begum, now 20, was one of three schoolgirls who left London to join the Islamic State group in Syria in 2015.

Her citizenship was revoked by the Home Office on security grounds after she was found in a refugee camp in 2019.

The Court of Appeal said she had been denied a fair trial because she could not make her case from the Syrian camp.

The Home Office said the decision was ‘very disappointing’ and it would ‘apply for permission to appeal’.

However, the appeal by the Home Office may be overruled by the Human Rights Act 1998, which gives effect to the human rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Article 6 (ECHR)- the right to a fair trial is one the rights protected by the Human Rights Act.

This ruling means that London-born Shamima is allowed to have a fair and unbiased trial, upon her arrival back into the United Kingdom.

British ministers have been increasingly using a power to remove people’s British citizenship if they can argue that doing so…