One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has sat down with controversial UK activist Tommy Robinson during a trip to London.<\/p>\n
The appearance comes just weeks after Ms Hanson\u2019s defence of Karl Stefanovic over his interview with the convicted criminal.<\/p>\n
Ms Hanson travelled to Britain to attend the CPAC Great Britain conference before joining Robinson for an interview on his podcast.<\/p>\n
Robinson praised Ms Hanson on Thursday following their meeting, describing her as one of the \u201cbravest\u201d women in the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cHad a fascinating time chatting to one of the bravest (ladies) on the planet,\u201d Robinson wrote on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cFearless, relentless, consistent, fighting for the Australian people and hopefully the next leader of her nation. Podcast coming soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
The meeting comes after Robinson became the centre of a media storm in Australia for his interview with Karl Stefanovic.<\/p>\n
Mr Stefanovic\u2019s interview with Robinson led to his dismissal from Channel Nine after executives questioned the decision to feature the controversial figure.<\/p>\n
The interview was removed from Mr Stefanovic\u2019s social media accounts, although Nine stressed it had no involvement in the editorial decisions made on his personal podcast.<\/p>\n
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has long been a prominent but divisive figure in Britain\u2019s political scene.<\/p>\n
He founded the English Defence League in 2009 and has long been associated with anti-immigration demonstrations and hardline positions on Islam.<\/p>\n
He has been convicted of offences including contempt of court and other criminal matters in the UK.<\/p>\n
His supporters describe him as a free speech campaigner, while his opponents accuse him of promoting extremist views.<\/p>\n
Ms Hanson strongly defended Mr Stefanovic during his dismissal from Nine over his interview with Robinson.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have no understanding that they’ve gone so far to the left\u2026 They’re making a big mistake,\u201d Ms Hanson told Sky News at the time.<\/p>\n
Ms Hanson also shared Mr Stefanovic\u2019s interview with Robinson on her own social media accounts after it was removed from Stefanovic\u2019s accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has sat down with controversial UK activist Tommy Robinson during a trip to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,8931,63,44,60504,14754,53567],"class_list":["post-789054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-auspol","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-one-nation","tag-pauline-hanson","tag-tommy-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}