A Glasgow family is at risk of being split up after a mother-of-two was ordered to get ready to leave the country.

Alison Thewliss, Glasgow central SNP MP, asked the Prime Minister to intervene in the case.

The MP, who knows the couple only as Mr Shaikh and Ms Gul, told Theresa May they applied for leave to remain in March 2017. The husband’s case was granted but Ms Gul’s rejected one year later.

She said Ms Gul has been told to prepare to leave the country.

The couple have two children, a five-year-old and a four-month-old, who are both British citizens.

Ms Thewliss asked in the House of Commons: “I see the results of the Prime Minister’s 'hostile environment' in my casework every single day.

“Why does the Prime Minister want to separate this family, and will she intervene?”

Ms May replied: “The honorable Lady knows full well that those who work in the UK Visas and Immigration section of the Home Office look at every case very carefully. She has made her point in this House, and I am sure that the Home Office will look again at that case.”

Ms Thewliss criticised the Prime Minister for refusing to take action on the case.

She said: “The Tory government has now told the mother of two British children to pack her bags and prepare to leave the country.

"Theresa May today had an opportunity to intervene in this case and to protect this family from being ripped apart, yet her response and her outright refusal to intervene, or at the very least, look into the case, was utterly shameful."