The runaway schoolgirl was stripped of her British citizenship after being found in a Syrian refugee camp in February. Begum now insists she “regrets everything”, including having children with her jihadi husband. The 19-year-old has also said she was “brainwashed” and knew little about Islam when she notoriously fled Bethnal Green in 2015.

She told The Times: “Since I left Baghuz I really regretted everything I did, and I feel like I want to go back to the UK for a second chance to start my life over again.

“I was brainwashed. I came here believing everything that I had been told, while knowing little about the truths of my religion.

“I do regret having children in the caliphate.”

Begum was heavily pregnant when she was found in a Syrian refugee camp following the collapse of ISIS.

At the time, she admitted that seeing a beheaded head in a bin “didn’t faze her”.

She added: “It was from a captured fighter seized on the battlefield, an enemy of Islam.

“I thought only of what he would have done to a Muslim woman if he had the chance.

“I’m not the same silly little 15-year-old schoolgirl who ran away from Bethnal Green four years ago. I don’t regret coming here.”

Last month, her newborn son Jarrah died in the refugee camp.

Begum had hoped to return to Britain with the baby, after losing her first two children with Dutch fighter Yago Riedijk.

Her family have launched an appeal against Home Secretary Sajid Javid’s decision to revoke her of her UK citizenship.

The family’s lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, said it breaches the European Convention on Human Rights.

He said: “We are arguing the decision is wrong because it renders Shamima Begum stateless, it puts her life at risk, exposes her to inhumane and degrading treatment, and breaches her right to family life.

“The decision was disproportionate. To strip her citizenship, the Home Secretary has to balance the risk she poses versus the effect on her.”

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