In a letter to the Tory leadership hopeful, the teenager’s family lawyer claims she had been used as a “pawn” in Mr Javid’s attempt to be prime minister and to further his political career. The Islamic State runaway bride was one of three schoolgirls who left Bethnal Green in east London to join the terror cult as a Jihadi bride in 2015. Ms Begum, 19, resurfaced pregnant at a Syrian refugee camp earlier this year. Her child died as had two previous children. Mr Javid stripped her of her UK citizenship in February – a decision her family has said it will appeal. Now they claim the decision was illegal and have demanded her return and an apology. Under international law the action is only permissible if it does not leave the individual stateless. The action was based on the belief that Ms Begum had Bangladeshi citizenship through her parents but Bangladeshi officials denied this.

Ms Begum has been granted legal aid to fight the decision to revoke her citizenship.

Her family claim failings in the UK led to Ms Begum being radicalised and becoming a victim of trafficking at the age of 15.

It was only after the group ran away that Tower Hamlets Council took the decision to make four remaining girls in the friendship circle wards of court to protect them from the consequences of potential radicalisation.

In his letter to Mr Javid family lawyer Mohammed Akunjee, said: “Your act represents the most profoundly egregious, capricious and politically-driven abuse of power.

“It was a unilateral, unprincipled response deployed as an artifice or device to further your own personal political objective of being prime minister. Ms Begum was a pawn to your vanity.”

Mr Akunjee said Ms Begum’s birth had not been registered with the Bangladeshi authorities, neither had she visited the country.

He added: “Rather, Shamima was born, raised, groomed and radicalised here in the UK. You have dishonourably left it to the Kurdish people to bear the financial and security burden of Shamima’s safety and upkeep.

“Your cynical decision amounts to human fly-tipping.” The Home Office said it did not comment on individual cases.

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