IRANIAN interrogators offered jailed mum Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe her freedom in exchange for spying on the UK, according to her husband.

Nazanin, 40, was jailed for five years in 2016 on spying charges, which she denies, and on Monday the mum-of-one began a three-day hunger strike in protest at being denied medical care.

Speaking at a news conference to coincide with the start of his wife’s hunger strike, Richard Ratcliffe, from Farnham, described how his wife was told by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in late December that she would be “safer afterwards” if she spied on the UK Department for International Development and London organisation Small Media.

He said this offer, which she refused, “really pushed her over the edge”, adding it was hoped the strike would get the Iranians to take his wife “seriously”.

Setting out her demands, he called on prison officials to allow his wife to see an external doctor to examine lumps in her breast and other health issues – and to be given an agreement in writing that she will be allowed access to any medical treatment the doctor recommends.

Richard also met with Foreign Secretary and MP for South West Surrey Jeremy Hunt on Monday afternoon, who later tweeted: “Her ongoing detention is totally unacceptable and her treatment at the hands of Iranian authorities is a fundamental breach of human rights.”

* Jeremy Hunt’s Hindhead constituency office was emblazoned with the European Union (EU) flag and the message ‘Revoke Article 50’ on Tuesday night as MPs rejected Theresa May’s Brexit deal by a 230-vote margin – the worst Commons defeat in parliamentary history.

The MP, who previously campaigned for the UK to remain in the EU, voted in favour of the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal – but was in the minority as the EU Withdrawal Agreement was rejected by 432 votes to 202.

Last week Mr Hunt warned that a rejection of Brexit would be an “incredibly damaging breach of trust” and “very bad for Britain’s reputation abroad”.