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A Dutch activist who describes herself as a “shieldmaiden of the far right” says she has been banned from getting into Britain three days after she tweeted about Keir Starmer. Eva Vlaardingerbroek advised her followers on X that she had not been given a purpose or proper to attraction the choice.

Ms Vlaardingerbroek posted a screenshot of what seems to be an official Government discover of the journey ban, which states her presence within the UK “is not considered to be conducive to the public good”. It additionally states she can’t attraction towards the choice. The Home Office has been approached for remark.

The discover mentioned her Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) had been revoked. An ETA permits residents from the European Union to enter the UK put up Brexit.

Her put up was accompanied by a tweet dated January 9 by which she falsely claimed: “Keir Starmer wants to crack down on X under the pretense (sic) of ‘women’s safety’, whilst he’s the one allowing the ongoing rape and killing of British girls by migrant rape gangs. Evil, despicable man”.

X’s AI chatbot Grok has prompted a wave of concern amongst MPs in latest days for permitting customers to control photographs of girls and youngsters to sexualise them.

Some MPs have known as for X to be banned over the problem whereas Sir Keir has warned the social media platform that if it may well’t management Grok the Government will.

Sir Keir has described claims over grooming gangs as lies and misinformation unfold by the far proper and amplified by some mainstream politicians in addition to components of the media.

He mentioned in January final 12 months that the best variety of youngster sexual abuse instances have been being prosecuted on report when he left his function as Director of Public Prosecutions in 2013.

Ms Vlaardingerbroek is a former member of the far proper get together, Dutch Forum for Democracy, who advised the Spectator she would like to be the brand new Nigel Farage.

She visited the UK in September when she spoke at a rally in London organised by fellow activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who makes use of the identify Tommy Robinson. She known as for immigrants to be “remigrated”.

In a video posted on her X account, Ms Vlaardingerbroek described the ban as a extreme limitation of her freedom and that she had been planning to come back to the UK in May.

Successive governments within the UK have used visa bans towards extremists and “hate preachers”, usually with a deal with Islamists mentioned to assist terrorism or sectarian violence, in keeping with the Commons Library.

Hate preacher Dr Zakir Naik was excluded by Theresa May in 2010 when she was Home Secretary. Hezbollah spokesman Dr Ibrahim Moussawi was refused a visa in 2009 amid issues his presence would improve pressure between Jews and Muslims in Britain.

Gordon Brown’s authorities included far-right figures on its listing of individuals banned in 2009. Stephen Donald Black, founding father of the US white supremacist web site Stormfront, was amongst them.

Decisions over whether or not to exclude somebody from the UK are made by the Home Secretary and are normally made out of issues over nationwide safety, conflict crimes, extremism or corruption.