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SIR KEIR STARMER has finally stood up to Donald Trump — but only by rejecting a demand from the incoming US administration that Shamima Begum be allowed to return to Britain.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy ruled out a return for Ms Begum, with the government’s desire to appease the racist right apparently trumping its usual subservience to Washington.
Sebastian Gorka, incoming counter-terrorism chief in the Trump team, is demanding that British members of Islamic State presently imprisoned in Syria be returned to Britain.
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