Any day now, Tafida Raqeeb will be airlifted out of Britain for treatment at a specialist children’s hospital in Italy. Her parents, Shelina Begum and Mohammed Raqeeb, are free to take her to the Gaslini Hospital in Genoa following a ruling in the High Court last week.

In granting permission for Tafida to leave the country, Mr Justice MacDonald also rejected applications by the NHS that ventilation and other “treatment” be withdrawn from the five-year-old – who suffered severe bleeding to her brain in February – with the intention that she dies.