Immigration lawyer and former local Labour councillor Asama Javed advised an undercover journalist there is “nothing wrong” with a father forcing a 15-year-old daughter into marriage, according to reports.

The former Labour Party councillor, primary school governor, and member of Bradford Council’s fostering board was caught on video giving the advice from her office desk to an undercover reporter for The Times, who pretended to have two teen daughters, the youngest of which he was looking to force into an arranged marriage.

The exposé comes after it emerged that the Home Office has been handing out visas to the ‘husbands’ of victims of forced marriage, having received 175 inquiries from abuse victims trying to block their spouses’ visas last year.

Telling Mrs Javed that his oldest daughter — who had just turned 18 — was already married and pregnant in Pakistan, he said that he wanted to bring her and her husband back to Britain but that his daughter was unhappy and may object to the husband’s spousal visa.

In this footage, an immigration lawyer tells an undercover reporter “there is no harm” in girls aged 15 getting married “if she is mentally or physically ready”, and offers advice on convincing his daughters to marry https://t.co/bXikfo97QC pic.twitter.com/uIhYAsPsmR — The Times of London (@thetimes) August 1, 2018

Speaking in a mixture of Urdu and English, the partner with Reiss Solicitors in Bradford — a northern English city which has a high Muslim population — told the undercover reporter not to apply for a spousal visa, and instead to bring the daughter back to England to have her child so that the husband could apply for residency as the child’s father, even against the woman’s wishes.

“If your daughter comes here and gives birth to a boy or girl, he can come as the father of the child. Then your daughter doesn’t need to sign,” the immigration lawyer advised, noting: “If you know that your daughter is not happy and she would not agree to that, then the alternative is better to call her here, look after her and let her give birth to a child and he can come after that direct as a father.”

The Times reporter then asked about getting his 15-year-old ‘daughter’ married in Pakistan, and Mrs Javed warned him that “if she goes to the police and tells them or tells the school, you will be in trouble,” and advised that he wait until she was 16 — the age of sexual consent in Britain.

Chain Migration: UK Govt ‘Turns Blind Eye’ to Forced Marriage, Hands Visas to Foreign Rapists https://t.co/ExXaJ9pqD2 — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) August 2, 2018