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Leftwing US commentator calls decision to ban him from UK ‘Kafkaesque’

A composite of Cenk Uygur speaking into a microphone and Hasan Piker with glasses at a desk
Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker, his nephew, will now speak virtually at an event run by the Oxford Union Society. Composite: Brian Cahn/Zuma/Alamy/Sam Barnes/Web Summit/Getty

A leftwing US political commentator has described the UK government’s decision to ban him from entering the country as “haunting and hilarious” and “Kafkaesque”.

Cenk Uygur, the founder and a host on Young Turks, a well-established progressive media outlet, was banned earlier this week from entering the UK to attend a speaking engagement alongside Hasan Piker, a Twitch streamer who has become a popular figure on the US political left.

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