Day: March 31, 2019

    Shamima Begum's husband has been banned from Britain after being seen as a security risk, reports claims. Dutch jihadi Yago Riedijk has reportedly been added to an exclusion list by Home Secretary Sajid Javid. It comes just weeks after ISIS bride Begum, who is living in a Syrian refugee camp, was stripped of her own British citizenship. The 19-year-old had hoped to raise the couple's third child in the UK before the newborn's death this month. Riedijk, 27, is currently being held in northern Syria and was jailed for six years in his absence in his native Netherlands for membership of a terrorist organisation. Tory MP Philip Hollobone told The Sun the ban was very welcome news.  We need to see more of this. There is going to be the threat of thousands of th...

    Theresa May has been warned by one of her senior ministers that she cannot afford to ignore the will of Parliament if it unites around a softer Brexit. With MPs set to hold a second round of indicative votes on alternatives to the prime minister’s deal on Monday, Justice Secretary David Gauke said she would have to look closely at any option that could command a majority. After 170 Tory MPs including 10 members of the Cabinet wrote to May urging her to take the UK out of the EU quickly as possible, Gauke reiterated he would resign rather than support a no deal break. Despite MPs rejecting May’s deal for a third time on Friday, Downing Street has made clear that she intends to to bring it back to the Commons for a fourth vote possibly on Tuesday or Wednesday. May h...