The British Government will not help Asia Bibi because it believes “less is more” in her case, Theresa May’s religious freedom envoy has declared.

Mrs Bibi, a Catholic mother of five, has been in hiding with her family in Pakistan since her death sentence for blasphemy was overturned by the country’s Supreme Court last month and she was freed from prison after eight years in solitary confinement.

The judge who freed her, Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, visited London last week and told MPs that she was not on an exit control list and was free to leave Pakistan with her family at any time.