Five more foreign speakers banned from Tommy Robinson rally

The Home Office has extended its ban on foreign far-right speakers attending Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom rally in London next weekend, with five more international figures now barred from entering the country following the earlier exclusions of Valentina Gomez and Joey Mannarino. Among those whose electronic travel authorisations have been revoked or refused are…

Eva Vlaardingerbroek at Tommy Robinson's 'Unite the Kingdom' 13 September 2025
Eva Vlaardingerbroek at Tommy Robinson’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ last September

The Home Office has extended its ban on foreign far-right speakers attending Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom rally in London next weekend, with five more international figures now barred from entering the country following the earlier exclusions of Valentina Gomez and Joey Mannarino.

Among those whose electronic travel authorisations have been revoked or refused are Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek, Spanish influencer Ada Lluch, Belgian Vlaams Belang politician Filip Dewinter, Polish MEP Dominik Tarczyński, and American chum of Robinson, Don Keith.

Not conducive to public good

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has applied the same “not conducive to the public good” standard used to exclude Gomez and Mannarino, and previously invoked to bar rapper Kanye West over his antisemitic remarks.

Vlaardingerbroek, whose ETA was actually revoked as long ago as January following inflammatory posts about Keir Starmer, had spoken at September’s rally calling for the “remigration” of immigrants and invoking the great replacement conspiracy.

Don Keith Urban scoop
Don Keith – Urban Scoop collaborator with Tommy Robinson

Lluch, a 26-year-old Catalan anti-immigration commentator who is Mannarino’s former partner, addressed the same event. She has publicly stated her belief that Spain was better governed under Franco, and was removed from Spanish television after falsely claiming that 91% of those arrested for theft in Catalunya were foreigners.

Keith is a close collaborator of Robinson’s, frequently travelling with him and broadcasting on Robinson’s Urban Scoop platform.

Far-right veteran

Dewinter is perhaps the most seasoned figure in the group. A veteran of the Flemish far right with decades of Vlaams Belang activism behind him, he spoke at last September’s rally and has long been a fixture at pan-European far-right gatherings.

His exclusion prompted an official protest from Vlaams Belang’s party chairman, who wrote to the British ambassador in Brussels demanding an explanation. Belgian investigative media have also reported, separately, that Dewinter spent years working on behalf of Chinese state interests.

Dominik Tarczyński at Tommy Robinson's 'Unite the Kingdom' 13 September 2025
Dominik Tarczyński at the last Tommy Robinson ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally in 2025

Tarczyński, a Polish MEP aligned with the Law and Justice-linked ECR group, was another speaker at September’s rally.

He caused considerable controversy in January when he publicly praised ICE agents after they shot dead a woman in Minneapolis.


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