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A Derby Labour councillor has criticised his party's leader Jeremy Corbyn for saying that IS bride Shamima Begum has the right to return to Britain.

But ex-Mayor Councillor Paul Pegg has said he will not give up his membership of the party in protest - instead preferring to stay and fight for the kind of Labour Party "he believes in".

His comments come as fellow Derby Labour councillor Dom Anderson left the party to become an independent, citing issues with the the way Labour is behaving nationally.

Shamima Begum left the UK at 15 to join Islamic State in Syria and now, aged 19, she controversially wants to return.

The UK has stripped 19-year-old Ms Begum, who also gave birth to a son last weekend, of British citizenship.

Home Secretary Sajid Javid said the power to deprive a person of citizenship was only used "in extreme circumstances", for example, "when someone turns their back on the fundamental values and supports terror"

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Mr Corbyn has added his voice to the argument saying that Mr Javid's stripping of Ms Begum's citizenship was "extreme".

The leader of the opposition said: "She obviously has, in my view, a right to return to Britain.

"On that return, she must obviously face a lot of questions about everything she has done and, at that point, any action may or may not be taken.

"But I think the idea of stripping somebody of their citizenship when they were born in Britain is a very extreme manoeuvre indeed."

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Mackworth councillor Mr Pegg said that Mr Corbyn's views are "not my views".

He said: "Nor are they the views of the majority of the real Labour Party or the views of the majority of the ordinary citizens of Derby and especially the Mackworth ward Labour party.

"I have supported our troops throughout the conflicts in the Middle East. How could I look the parents in the eye, who lost their innocent children at the Ariarna Grande concert in Manchester or the children and families of troops killed in action, or the families of the volunteers who went out to the Middle East to help with the humanitarian aid and were beheaded, if I supported such a statement.

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"Yes I could walk away from the Labour Party and I have over the past few weeks thought long and hard about just that.

"I fully understand why MPs have left the Labour Party. It could not have been easy for them.

"I grew up with the Labour Party. My parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, great-aunts and great-uncles supported the Labour Party.

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"It was my great-uncles who carried Derby MP Philip Noel-Baker shoulder high through the streets of Derby and stood him on a bus shelter on the Market Place.

"I’m going to stay and fight for the Labour Party I believe in, I’m not going to be pushed out by Corbyn, or his cronies in Derby, no matter what committee they take over."

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Ms Begum, who left east London in 2015, was found in a Syrian refugee camp after fleeing Isis's last stronghold town of Baghuz and has requested that she be allowed back into the UK with her newborn baby boy.

She married a Dutch jihadist shortly after arriving in Syria.

But it prompted a widespread debate after she insisted she did not regret her decision to join IS and was "unfazed" by beheadings and executions.

International law forbids nations from making people stateless by revoking their citizenship unless they are eligible for citizenship of another country. In Ms Begum's case it has been speculated that she could turn to Bangladesh, through her mother, or Holland because of her husband.

But both her parents and Bangladesh have denied she has dual nationality. It is possible her baby may be entitled to British, Dutch or Bangladeshi nationality.

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Derby South MP Dame Margaret Beckett refused to be drawn on Mr Corbyn's comments specifically but urged caution regarding the issue.

She said: "What is really important here is establishing exactly what the legal position is regarding Ms Begum.

"Certainly, the baby has done nothing wrong and I have no doubt that if she returns to Britain she will undergo some in-depth questioning."

The family of Ms Begum have told the Home Secretary they are going to challenge his decision to revoke her UK citizenship and said they believe her status is "a matter for our British courts".