He fumed the government should “hang their heads in shame”.

Robert Jenrick shared his thoughts on GB News (Image: GB News)

Tory MP Robert Jenrick shared his frustration following news that controversial activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah has been welcomed back to the UK. GB News has been discussing the return of the activist since Keir Starmer issued a statement on Boxing Day to confirm he was back in the UK and reunited with his loved ones, stating his return was a “top priority” for the Labour government after his release from prison.

The decision has caused mixed reactions across the board, with Jenrick being one of the people to condemn the decision as he raged about it on GB News with Alex Armstrong. Armstrong asked: “I need to ask you about one of your fellow shadow frontbenchers James Cleverly who previously tweeted he was tirelessly working to get the release of this man.” Armstrong addressed that there were also other Conservative MPs who supported his return to the UK.

Keir Starmer issued a statement of support (Image: Getty)

However, he supported his fellow MPs by stating they perhaps didn’t know the extent of his previous tweets, he added: “I just don’t know. But what I can say, he should never have been given a British citizenship in 2021. I’m ashamed the last Conservative Government did that.

“The officials at the foreign office who have wasted hundreds and hundreds of hours of their time which should have been spent pursuing genuine British interests should hang their heads in shame. Instead, they sought to bring this man to the United Kingdom, the very country he appears to despise. It tells you everything you need to know about the failure of the British Government in recent years.”

He raged: “Your viewers watching tonight will think that they are mugs.”

Keir Starmer was hit with an abundance of backlash after sharing his delight that El-Fattah was back in the UK and reunited with loved ones. In response to his post, one user wrote: “Why is Keir Starmer celebrating Alaa Abd El-Fattah, whose violent hatred is all over the internet?”

While another wrote: “Do you still have those laws to put people in jail for mean tweets?” He is a British citizen who spent more than a decade in prison after being convicted of “spreading fake news” in Egypt.

According to The Times of Israel, Mr Abd El-Fattah wrote on November 15, 2012, “there is a critical number of Israelis that we need to kill and then the (Palestine) problem is solved”.

Jenrick wrote a letter to the PM, one part included the question: “Did you know about these statements before you issued your ‘delighted’ message?”