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Jeremy Corbyn has said Shamima Begum should receive "some support" from UK authorities.

He said he supports calls for the 19-year-old jihadi runaway, who gave birth to a baby boy in a refugee camp on Sunday, to be allowed to return to the UK.

Begum, currently in a refugee camp in northern Syria, is now thought to be 'stateless' but she wants to return to the UK to raise her newborn son, whose father is an ISIS soldier.

The Labour leader described the Home Office's decision to strip Shamima Begum of UK citizenship as a "very extreme manoeuvre".

The Labour leader insisted Ms Begum, who left the UK aged 15 to go to Syria, should "face a lot of questions" in Britain over her support for so-called Islamic State.

But he insisted she should be allowed to return home.

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Mr Corbyn said: "Because she was born in Britain she has that right to remain in Britain and obviously there are a lot of questions she has to answer.

"But also some support that she needs and Diane Abbott set this out on our behalf yesterday in Parliament.

He added: "Well, 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."

Mr Corbyn questioned whether the Home Secretary should have the right to take away someone's citizenship.

He said: "I think the idea of stripping somebody of their citizenship when they were born in Britain, is a very extreme manoeuvre indeed, I questioned the right of the Home Secretary to have these powers when the original law was brought in by Theresa May when she was Home Secretary."

Home Secretary Sajid Javid has refused to comment on individual cases but insisted that the UK would never leave someone stateless.

He said: "I would not take a decision - and I believe none of my predecessors ever have taken a decision - that at the point the decision is taken would leave that individual stateless."

However Bangladesh have said the teenager, born and raised in London, is not a citizen despite her parents heritage in the country.

Ms Begum told ITV News she may pursue citizenship through the Netherlands having married a Dutch jihadi while in Syria.