Sajid Javid's Tory leadership ambitions were dealt a blow last night after the death of jihadi bride Shamima Begum's infant son sparked a furious backlash over his decision to strip her of British citizenship.
The under-fire Home Secretary was branded an 'unlucky general' as a string of Whitehall rows about Brexit, knife crime, online harm and immigration left him isolated from both Downing Street and Cabinet colleagues.
Senior Tories last night distanced themselves from Mr Javid's decision after Conservative MPs broke cover to describe the Government as 'morally responsible' for the death of the newborn in a Syrian refugee camp.
Sajid Javid's Tory leadership ambitions were dealt a blow last night after the death of jihadi bride Shamima Begum's infant son sparked a furious backlash over his decision to strip her of British citizenship. Mr Javid is pictured
Baby Jarrah was born a British citizen on February 16, shortly before the Home Secretary stripped his 19-year-old mother of her passport as she was considered a national security threat.
The decision sparked a debate over the rights of IS brides and fighters to return to the UK, with the row reignited following the news of Jarrah's death.
Last night it was reported that two more jihadi brides had been stripped of their British citizenship. Sisters Reema and Zara Iqbal, who between them have five boys under the age of eight, fled from East London to join IS in Syria. They are reportedly now in a refugee camp in northern Syria.
Begum's British family had begged Mr Javid to allow safe passage for Jarrah to come to London.
Conservative MP Philip Lee suggested it was Mr Javid's desire to lead the party that was behind his blocking of Begum's return. He urged him to reflect on a decision 'driven by populism and not by any principle I recognise'.
He added: 'I think we had a moral responsibility to her and her baby.'
Former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell demanded Mr Javid restore Begum's British citizenship.
And one Minister said Mr Javid was 'shaping up to be an unlucky general' who was always 'in the wrong place at the wrong time – either on holiday or on the wrong side of the argument'.
Miss Begum's British family had begged Mr Javid to allow safe passage for Jarrah to come to London. Miss Begum is pictured soon after the birth of her baby boy in Syria
Dal Babu, a former Metropolitan Police chief superintendent and a friend of the Begum family, also criticised Mr Javid, saying: 'This was an entirely avoidable death of a British citizen. There was no attempt to help by the Home Office. It's shocking how the Home Secretary has treated this situation.'
There was still some support for Mr Javid last night. Security Minister Ben Wallace said: 'Only the hardest and dedicated IS members stayed until the end.'
Mr Javid also found himself at the centre of a fresh Cabinet row last night after an extraordinary blast at potential leadership rivals Jeremy Hunt and Matt Hancock, accusing the successive Health Secretaries of failing to train enough British nurses.
Signalling his intention to extend a one-year exemption after Brexit for foreign doctors and nurses from strict immigration rules that set an earnings floor at £30,000, Mr Javid wrote in a private letter to Cabinet members seen by this newspaper: 'More work needs to be done.
'There remains a significant need to attract overseas nurses.'
Lord Macdonald, who was director of public prosecutions of England and Wales between 2003 and 2008, told the Observer last night: 'No dignified self-governing state should abandon responsibility for its own citizens in this way, trying to dump them on to poorer countries with failed security arrangements.
'Mr Javid's behaviour is a recipe for refugee chaos and moral cowardice of the worst sort.'
She told MoS she was 'terrified' her infant son would die in camp
By Ian Birrell for the Mail on Sunday
Shamima Begum told me she was 'terrified' her baby son Jarrah would die when we met inside a Syrian refugee camp shortly after his birth three weeks ago.
Begum's two previous children also died. She said she had been traumatised to see one of them suffer from starvation before passing away and this drove her desire to return to Britain.
Jarrah's death was confirmed on Friday. He had been taken to hospital with breathing difficulties the previous day. The cause of death was pneumonia, according to a medical certificate.
Ian Birrell interviewed Shamima Begum at al-Hol camp two days after the birth of her son
When I interviewed Begum at al-Hol camp two days after his birth, she spoke of her fear that he might fall sick. 'I'm terrified he could die,' she said.
Dozens of children have died, often of pneumonia, while being ferried in bitterly cold and wet weather on flatback trucks out of Baghouz, the last pocket of the Islamic State's crumbling 'caliphate'. Many more have passed away inside the sprawling camp, which is struggling to handle the unexpectedly high numbers arriving. Al-Hol has doubled in size to 62,000 people in less than a month.
As a consequence, Begum and Jarrah were moved a week ago with some other female foreign recruits to Roj, a smaller camp near the Iraqi border.
The British teenager married Yago Riedijk, a Dutch fighter, ten days after arriving in IS's self-declared caliphate. Riedijk is in a nearby prison and has been told of Jarrah's death.
Another British woman at Roj told me last week many captives had paid for TVs in their tents and could watch the BBC.
'Some of the sisters have plasma screens since they say they will be here for a long time,' she said. She added that British intelligence officers had visited Roj to question some captives – yet Ministers claim they cannot risk officials' lives going into 'a failed state' to help return those being held.
Begum's defence of the 2017 Manchester terror attack, in which 22 people died at an Ariana Grande concert, led to her citizenship being revoked.
But camp officials, Kurdish politicians and Western security sources all told me this was the wrong decision.
One senior US security official said it was foolish to leave about 1,000 Western jihadi recruits in such a fragile region, with fears of fresh conflict breaking out, instead of taking them home and locking them up in prison or putting them under surveillance.
'It is better to keep these dogs of war on the leash than leave them somewhere they could be running wild off the leash in a few months' time,' the sou
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