GB News’ Patrick Christys explodes as ECHR moves to challenge UK ban on Shamima Begum’s return — warning it could END Keir Starmer’s premiership

GB News presenter Patrick Christys has launched a blistering on-air attack after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) signalled it is prepared to consider an appeal that could force the UK to allow ISIS bride Shamima Begum back into the country — a move he warned may “bring down the Labour government” and finally push Britain out of the Convention altogether.

In a furious monologue that has already gone viral among critics of the ECHR, Christys framed the case as far more than a legal dispute. Instead, he described it as a looming constitutional and political earthquake — one that could expose what he called the “madness” of Britain’s submission to foreign judges and the moral bankruptcy of Labour’s human rights absolutism.

“Wouldn’t it be delicious,” Christys said, “if it turns out that it’s a jihadi bride from Tower Hamlets that finally ends Sir Keir Starmer’s political career?”

A case Labour cannot escape

Shamima Begum, who left the UK at 15 to join ISIS in Syria and later admitted she was “okay” with the group’s beheadings, was stripped of her British citizenship in 2019 on national security grounds. Since then, every major UK court — the Immigration Appeals Commission, the Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court — has ruled she should not be allowed to return.

But now, her lawyers have taken the fight to Strasbourg.

And that, Christys argued, is where Labour’s nightmare truly_state begins.

“The ECHR doesn’t care what British courts think,” he said. “It has form. Judges from Montenegro, Latvia, Liechtenstein and Slovenia once ruled we couldn’t deport Abu Qatada — an al-Qaeda fanatic. And who represented him? Our current Prime Minister. You couldn’t write it.”

Christys reeled off a string of ECHR decisions he described as “absurd” and “detached from reality” — from blocking deportations over a child’s dislike of foreign chicken nuggets, to stopping the Rwanda scheme, to siding with elderly Swiss women who claimed climate change threatened their lives.

“So forgive me,” he added, “if I don’t trust Strasbourg to suddenly grow common sense.”

Labour boxed in by its own ideology

At the heart of Christys’ argument is Labour’s unbreakable commitment to the ECHR — a commitment explicitly stated by Attorney General Lord Hermer, a close friend and ally of Sir Keir Starmer.

Christys played a clip on air in which Hermer pledged that the UK would never withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights and would never refuse to comply with its judgments.

“That’s it. Black and white,” Christys said. “No wriggle room. No caveats. No escape.”

This, he argued, leaves Labour fatally exposed.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has insisted she will fight any attempt to bring Begum back. But if the ECHR rules against the UK, Labour faces an impossible choice: defy Strasbourg and shatter its human-rights credentials — or obey and face an explosion of public anger.

“When anonymous foreign judges tell Britain to take back an ISIS bride that every British court has rejected,” Christys warned, “the public are not going to like it. At all.”

‘Game over’ for Starmer

Christys went further, suggesting compliance with an ECHR ruling could spell the end of Starmer’s leadership — especially amid a growing pile-up of politically toxic cases involving terrorism, migration and human rights payouts.

In recent days alone, the government has faced outrage over:

A terror-linked figure being welcomed into political circles

A jailed terrorist being awarded £240,000 in compensation

Growing perceptions that Labour prioritises offenders’ rights over public safety

“Add Shamima Begum to that,” Christys said, “and it’s the cherry on top of the cake.”

He accused Labour of presiding over a “grotesque rebrand” of Begum — from ISIS bride, to misguided schoolgirl, to harmless young mother, to would-be counterterrorism asset.

“This is the same woman who calmly said she knew ISIS were beheading people and she was okay with it,” he said. “That’s not a footnote. That’s the story.”

A reckoning for the ECHR

Beyond Labour, Christys suggested the case could trigger a wider revolt against the ECHR itself.

If Begum were forced back into Britain, he predicted demonstrations, mass calls to leave the Convention, and an electoral backlash that would reward any party promising to restore full legal sovereignty.

“A system that prioritises the ‘rights’ of ISIS sympathisers over the safety of British citizens has forfeited all moral authority,” he said.

In his closing remarks, Christys delivered a line that encapsulated the fury of his commentary — and the political stakes he believes now loom over Westminster.

“Unbelievably,” he said, “thank you, Shamima Begum. Because if it takes an ISIS bride to expose how broken our human rights framework has become, then so be it.”

“And if Sir Keir Starmer’s career ends because he chose international lawyers over the British people,” he added, “that won’t be a tragedy. That will be accountability.”