The exclusive poll found that Ms Begum is not welcome back in the UK, after the 20-year-old fled to Syria to join the Islamic State. The poll, carried out from 12-8pm on February 7, asked: “Should Shamima Begum be allowed back to Britain?” 16,769 people participated in the survey, with the overwhelming majority, 96 percent (16,021 people) of respondents saying “no”.

Just four percent (598 people) responded “yes”, while less than one percent (150 people) said “don’t know”.

Ms Begum, who is of British-Bangladeshi heritage, left Bethnal Green, east London, for Syria in 2015 with two school friends.

Within days she had crossed the Turkish border and eventually reached the IS headquarters at Raqqa, where she married a Dutch convert recruit.

They had three children, all of whom have since died.

Ms Begum lived under the terror group’s rule for more than three years where she reportedly served as a member of the ISIS “morality police”, a feared group which enforced the terror organisation’s strict interpretation of Islamic law.

The teenager is thought to have earned a reputation as a strict enforcer of ISIL’s laws, such as dress codes for women and tried to recruit other young women to join the jihadist group.

She was also accused of stitching suicide bombers into exclusive vests, so they could not be removed without detonating.

The allegations, reported by The Sunday Telegraph, were made by other westerners who joined ISIS.

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In February 2019 Ms Begum was found, nine months pregnant, in a refugee camp.

She then pleaded to return to the UK to raise her child but the then security minister Ben Wallace said: “I’m not putting at risk British people’s lives to go and look for terrorists or former terrorists in a failed state.”

Ms Begum gave several interviews, and told The Times she did not regret joining the terror group and claimed that seeing a severed head in a bin “didn’t faze” her.

But she later insisted she “regretted everything” and had been brainwashed.

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Shortly after the interviews, former home secretary Sajid Javid stripped her of her British citizenship.

But Ms Begum’s lawyers argued the decision was unlawful as it left her stateless.

This prompted her to take legal action against the Home Office at the High Court and the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC).

Today the tribunal ruled that the decision to revoke Ms Begum’s citizenship did not render her stateless.

Under international law, it is illegal to deprive nationals of citizenship if to do so would leave them stateless.

But SIAC concluded that Ms Begum was “a citizen of Bangladesh by descent”, so could instead turn to Bangladesh for citizenship.

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