A Dutch anti-immigration influencer who has promoted conspiracy theories such as the \u201cgreat replacement\u201d appears to have had her authorisation for visa-free travel to the UK revoked.<\/p>\n
Eva Vlaardingerbroek posted an image online of what appeared to be a notification from the British government that her UK electronic travel authorisation (ETA) had been cancelled on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour presence in the UK is not considered to be conducive to the public good,\u201d it stated.<\/p>\n
Viktor Orb\u00e1n, the Hungarian prime minister, reposted Vlaardingerbroek\u2019s tweet to his X account. The post linked to her previous comments about Keir Starmer, whom she described as an \u201cevil, despicable man\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re always welcome in Hungary!\u201d said Orban, whose country hosted her and others from the far right and hardline conservative parties in 2024 when she addressed the Conservative Political Action conference (CPAC).<\/p>\n
Vlaardingerbroek spoke last year in London at Britain\u2019s largest ever far-right protest<\/a>, organised by the activist Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.<\/p>\n Appearing in a T-shirt emblazoned with the words \u201cGeneration Remigration\u201d \u2013 a reference to a far-right buzzword regarded as a euphemism for forced mass deportations \u2013 she said: \u201cThey are demanding the sacrifice of our children on the altar of mass migration. Let\u2019s not beat about the bush \u2013 this is the rape, replacement and murder of our people \u2026 Remigration is possible, and it\u2019s up to us to make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n According to immigration experts, the cancellation of an ETA means an individual is ineligible for visa-free travel to the UK. They may be denied entry and must apply for and obtain a UK visa before making any further attempt to travel.<\/p>\n The Home Office<\/a> has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n The apparent move by the Home Office could result in a backlash from Vlaardingerbroek\u2019s allies in the US, where figures in the Trump administration have accused Britain of clamping down on free speech.<\/p>\n Liz Truss, who served as prime minister for 49 days in 2022 and who has become a vocal proponent of increasingly rightwing views since leaving office, criticised the move.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople who tell the truth about what\u2019s happening in Britain banned from the country,\u201d Truss wrote on X.<\/p>\n Rupert Lowe, the anti-immigration MP who was previously part of Nigel Farage\u2019s Reform UK party, said he would be questioning why the Dutch activist had been prevented from entering the UK and calling for any such decision to be reversed.<\/p>\n It is not the first time that figures deemed as extremists have been banned from entering the UK. Earlier this month, an Islamist preacher was banned from the UK<\/a> after he defended the terrorist group Hamas after the 7 October terror attack on Israel. And Martin Sellner, a prominent anti-Islamic extremist whose organisation was investigated in Austria over links to the Christchurch shooting<\/a> suspect, was permanently barred<\/a> from entering the UK in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dutch anti-immigration influencer who has promoted conspiracy theories such as the \u201cgreat replacement\u201d appears to have had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-371634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}