'Leave' campaign wants Leave supporter Marine Le Pen banned from the UK [View all]

[muriel_volestrangler]

As they say, you couldn't make it up - just for added irony, Gisela Stuart was born in Germany, and moved to Britain when she was 19, just after Britain joined the EEC.

Marine Le Pen should be barred from UK, says Vote Leave

A senior figure in the campaign for UK exit from the EU has urged the Home Office to bar French far right leader Marine Le Pen from visiting Britain.

Vote Leave co-chairman Gisela Stuart said Ms Le Pen held "divisive and inflammatory" views and her visit would not be "conducive to the public good".

The president of the French National Front, who backs Brexit, is expected to travel to the UK in the next few weeks.
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In a letter to Home Secretary Theresa May sent on Friday, Ms Stuart said the National Front leader "has previously made many divisive and inflammatory comments, including comparing Muslims praying in the street to the Nazi occupation of France".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36123014

Later in the interview she (Theresa May) said the fact that Gisela Stuart, the Labour MP chairing the official Out campaign, had urged her to block Marine Le Pen, the far-right French politician, from entering the UK proved ministers do control Britain’s borders.

“Contrary to what I think you were trying to say earlier, the fact that she’s written to me to suggest that I should stop somebody coming into the country rather does suggest we have control of our borders,” Mrs May said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/24/britain-has-control-of-borders-theresa-may-insists-despite-3m-mi/

Always embarrassing when the racist relative wants to come and visit - maybe 'Leave' should just turn out the lights and pretend they're not home?