Eva Vlaardingerbroek said she was told her entry into the UK is deemed not ‘conducive to the public good’.
Dutch far-right activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek has been banned from the UK (Image: Getty)
A Dutch activist who describes herself as a “shieldmaiden of the far right” says she has been banned from entering Britain three days after she tweeted about Keir Starmer. Eva Vlaardingerbroek told her followers on X that she had not been given a reason or right to appeal the decision.
Ms Vlaardingerbroek posted a screenshot of what appears to be an official Government notice of the travel ban, which states her presence in the UK “is not considered to be conducive to the public good”. It also states she cannot appeal against the decision. The Home Office has been approached for comment.
The notice said her Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) had been revoked. An ETA allows citizens from the European Union to enter the UK post Brexit.
Her post was accompanied by a tweet dated January 9 in which she falsely claimed: “Keir Starmer wants to crack down on X under the pretense (sic) of ‘women’s safety’, whilst he’s the one allowing the ongoing rape and killing of British girls by migrant rape gangs. Evil, despicable man”.
X’s AI chatbot Grok has prompted a wave of concern among MPs in recent days for allowing users to manipulate images of women and children to sexualise them.
Some MPs have called for X to be banned over the issue while Sir Keir has warned the social media platform that if it can’t control Grok the Government will.
Sir Keir has described claims over grooming gangs as lies and misinformation spread by the far right and amplified by some mainstream politicians as well as parts of the media.
He said in January last year that the highest number of child sexual abuse cases were being prosecuted on record when he left his role as Director of Public Prosecutions in 2013.
Ms Vlaardingerbroek is a former member of the far right party, Dutch Forum for Democracy, who told the Spectator she would love to be the new Nigel Farage.
She visited the UK in September when she spoke at a rally in London organised by fellow activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who uses the name Tommy Robinson. She called for immigrants to be “remigrated”.
In a video posted on her X account, Ms Vlaardingerbroek described the ban as a severe limitation of her freedom and that she had been planning to come to the UK in May.
Successive governments in the UK have used visa bans against extremists and “hate preachers”, often with a focus on Islamists said to support terrorism or sectarian violence, according to the Commons Library.
Hate preacher Dr Zakir Naik was excluded by Theresa May in 2010 when she was Home Secretary. Hezbollah spokesman Dr Ibrahim Moussawi was refused a visa in 2009 amid concerns his presence would increase tension between Jews and Muslims in Britain.
Gordon Brown’s government included far-right figures on its list of people banned in 2009. Stephen Donald Black, founder of the US white supremacist website Stormfront, was among them.
Decisions over whether to exclude someone from the UK are made by the Home Secretary and are usually made out of concerns over national security, war crimes, extremism or corruption.
