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Watch: Richard Madeley goes full Partridge with comments about Hitler Youth and Shamima Begum

Another day, another step closer to Richard Madeley actually becoming Alan Partridge.

Today he was talking about Shamima Begum wanting to return to the UK.

The Bethnal Green teenager, who travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State, yesterday restated her desire to return to Britain – claiming she would “love” to help rehabilitate extremists.

Begum, now 21, said she was “just a dumb kid” and not a terrorist when she left London to join IS. “I don’t think I was a terrorist. I think I was jut a dumb kid who made one mistake,” she told filmmakers at the al-Roj prison camp in Syria, where she remains after being stripped of her British citizenship.

“I personally don’t think that I need to be rehabilitated, but I would want to help other people be rehabilitated. I would love to help.”

So on today’s GMB he went on a rant about her, and it has to be watched to be believed.

Susanna Reid looked like she wanted a sinkhole to appear under her chair and swallow her into the bowels of the earth.

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