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Tommy Robinson’s right-hand grifter banned from UK

Eleven far-right speakers have been banned from the UK in the run up to yesterday’s Unite The Kingdom march in London, according to the Home Office. Names of the individuals concerned have not been officially released but eight have previously been identified. A ninth is now known to be Ezra Levant, the Canadian far-right provocateur…

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Ezra levant announces enttry ban to UK
Ezra Levant announces he is banned from the UK

Eleven far-right speakers have been banned from the UK in the run up to yesterday’s Unite The Kingdom march in London, according to the Home Office. Names of the individuals concerned have not been officially released but eight have previously been identified. A ninth is now known to be Ezra Levant, the Canadian far-right provocateur and long-standing grifting collaborator of Tommy Robinson.

Levant’s exclusion is particulary significant. He is a key player in Robinson’s entourage whom Robinson has described as his mentor who trained him.

Fund raiser

The Canadian is to be found at Robinson’s side every time the Luton grifter is in trouble, or could use another fund raiser.

Levant is the founder and chief executive of Rebel News, the far-right Canadian outlet best known in the UK for its relationship with Robinson, having previously employed him, along with Katie Hopkins and other far-right British figures as hosts.

Ezra levant with Tommy Robinson
Ezra Levant with Tommy Robinson – Robinson calls Levant his mentor

Born in Calgary in 1972 into an Ashkenazi Jewish family, he trained as a lawyer and briefly practised before abandoning the bar around 2003 to pursue politics and media.

He achieved early notoriety in 2006 by publishing the Jyllands-Posten Mohammed cartoons in his conservative magazine, the Western Standard, triggering a prolonged battle with the Alberta Human Rights Commission.

Free speech martyr

That confrontation established the “free speech martyr” template he has deployed ever since on Robinson’s behalf. Rebel News was co-founded with Brian Lilley in 2015; Lilley departed two years later citing a lack of editorial standards.

Ezra levant at Westminster Court for Tommy Robinson appearance
Ezra Levant at Westminster Magistrates Court for a Tommy Robinson appearance

Levant has been a key fundraiser and self-styled “legal counsel” for Robinson whenever he has got himself into legal trouble, each fresh crisis generating a new appeal to Robinson’s supporters through Rebel’s platforms.

Attempted provocation

When Robinson was involved in the St Pancras incident in summer 2025, Levant turned up at the Epping anti-racist demonstration attempting to provoke a response, simultaneously announcing on Rebel News that he had already told Robinson’s lawyers he would be crowdfunding the latest legal battle, while omitting to clarify what had happened to money donated to the previous appeal.

Ezra Levant at Epping demo 2025
Ezra Levant tres to provoke a reaction at Epping hotel demo last year

The assault case came to nothing when the injured person decilned to press charges, but as far as is known the ‘defence fund’ donations were never returned.

Levant regularly flies in from Canada to the latest anti-migrant flashpoint in the UK, Ireland, France or elsewhere in Europe, the far-right equivalent of an ambulance chaser, though his targets are asylum seekers and those who hate them.

False claims

In Dublin the day after riots erupted at the Citywest asylum hotel in October 2025, he immediately began stirring tensions, broadcasting from outside the airport and falsely claiming the mainstream press was covering up an alleged assault, a claim contradicted by coverage in every major Irish newspaper.

Ezra Levant - Stump up for Tommy (again)
Ezra Levant – Stump up for Tommy (again)

The financial dimension of the Levant-Robinson partnership is lucrative; a residential trip organised by Rebel News ahead of the September 2025 Unite the Kingdom rally was priced between £999 and £4,099, including dinner with Robinson.

Rolling ban

Levant’s exclusion came as part of a rolling ban on foreign far-right speakers ahead of yesterday’s UTK rally in London on 16 May, which also swept up Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek, Spanish influencer Ada Lluch, Belgian Vlaams Belang politician Filip Dewinter, Polish MEP Dominik Tarczyński, and American Robinson associate Don Keith.

These followed earlier bans on US commentator Joey Mannarino and MAGA influencer Valentina Gomez.

Rebel News’s Australian correspondent Avi Yemini was also barred.

Levant exclusion order
Ezra Levant’s exclusion order

In total, the Home Secretary applied the “not conducive to the public good” standard to eleven individuals ahead of the rally.

There is no doubt that the bans seriously detracted from yesterday’s event.

At previous Robinson rallies, particularly last September’s London demonstration, a parade of controversial foreign speakers graced the stage and were promoted heavily in the pre-event publicity.

The grift goes on

Levant’s response was characteristic: he announced a lawsuit against Keir Starmer and opened a fundraiser to pay for it.

“It’s an uphill battle to sue the Prime Minister of the UK, of course it is.” he said, “But it is do-able.

“Unfortunately I need to raise thousnads of pounds…”

And off we go again.

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