Kanye West already has his visa to come to the UK, but that decision is now understood to be under review.<\/p>\n
Melvin Benn, managing director at Festival Republic, which promotes Wireless Festival, told Today on BBC Radio 4 that West’s Visa had been “issued in the last few days”.<\/p>\n
Benn said: “He has a visa already issued to appear, to come into the country, and the home secretary may well rescind that today, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
“If she does, she does, and then the issue is over in terms of his appearance.”<\/p>\n
The government has discretion to ban foreign nationals from the UK if their presence is not considered “conducive to the public good”.<\/p>\n
A ban can be ordered by the home secretary personally, and government guidance states it will normally involve serious issues such as national security, war crimes, corruption or extremism.<\/p>\n
Officials, such as immigration officials, can also refuse visas or entry at the border over someone’s conduct, character or associations. Additional grounds include anticipated incitement of public disorder.<\/p>\n
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has faced calls from politicians and the Campaign Against Antisemitism to ban West from coming to the UK.<\/p>\n
Sky News understands Kanye West’s permission to travel to the UK is currently being reviewed by ministers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kanye West already has his visa to come to the UK, but that decision is now understood to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-517446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517446","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=517446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}