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.