Britain has been urged to 'come clean' after apparently covering up the role of a Canadian spy accused of smuggling Shamima Begum into Syria. 
There are growing calls for an inquiry into claims the Met and the government knew the alleged people smuggler was responsible for helping Begum and her two fellow schoolgirls join ISIS while also working as a double agent for Canada. 
Rabina Khan, a councillor for Bethnal Green, where Begum, then 15, went to school with Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15-year-old Amira Abase - called for an inquiry into what took place. 
She said the revelations were 'absolutely disgraceful and shameful for this country and government'. 




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The so-called Jihadi Bride was stripped of her British citizenship in 2019 after she fled Britain four years earlier to join the Islamic State (IS).

She is pictured in the Al Hawl camp 

Yesterday, Begum's lawyer Tasnime Akunjee told MailOnline the new development significantly strengthened his client's case and made it likely she would now be readmitted to the UK.  
'This confirms Shamima was a trafficked person under the Modern Slavery Act,' he said. 
'When someone is a trafficked person the UK has various treaty obligations and there is a very strong legal pressure to have that person repatriated.
'This was an allied state that was meant to be working to protect our citizens but in their algorithm of risk decided they would put the lives of British children at stake.'