Handing legal aid to Shamima Begum would be 'very uncomfortable' Jeremy Hunt ...

Jeremy Corbyn said Shamima Begum should be allowed to apply for legal aid to challenge moves to strip her of UK citizenship today.

The Labour leader insisted the Jihadi bride 'is a British national' despite action by the Home Secretary to bar her from the United Kingdom.

Mr Corbyn said Sajid Javid's move to strip her of British citzenship was 'very questionable'.

Mr Javid's action came after she was found in a Syrian refugee camp and said she wanted to come home.

He admitted today he could not interfere with her application for legal aid, which is based on an applicant's entitlement to help in the courts.  

Speaking on a visit to Halifax today, Mr Corbyn said: 'She is a British national and, therefore, she has that right, like any of us do, to apply for legal aid if she has a problem. She has legal rights, just like anybody else does.

'The whole point of legal aid is that if you're facing a prosecution then you're entitled to be represented and that's a fundamental rule of law, a fundamental point in any democratic society.

'We cannot and should not judge outside of a court.

'A court must make that decision and every person in front of a court, whatever they're accused of doing, how heinous or bad the crime is, is entitled to that representation.'

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: 'On a personal level, it makes me very uncomfortable because she made a series of choices and she knew the choices she was making, so I think we made decisions about her future based on those choices.

'However, we are a country that believes that people with limited means should have access to the resources of the state if they want to challenge the decisions the state has made about them and, for obvious reasons, those decisions are made independent from politicians.'

Mr Hunt added: 'The decision to deprive her of

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