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Xander Elliards

UK Government refuses to break silence on visa ban for two left-wing US speakers

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has banned two left-wing US speakers from coming to the UK (Image: PA)

THE Labour Government has chosen to remain silent amid a growing backlash at the decision to ban two left-wing US speakers from entering the UK.

Hasan Piker, a political streamer with 1.9 million YouTube subscribers, and Cenk Uygur, the co-founder of the left-wing political programme The Young Turks, have both been blocked from coming to the UK as the Home Office decided their visits would not be “conducive to the public good”, it is understood.

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