“Ada Lluch... previously made controversial statements about Spain being "better off" under Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in posts shared on X in 2024, as reported by El País.”

“Vlaardingerbroek was first notified that her ETA had been withdrawn in January”

“Flemish MP Filip Dewinter... was embroiled in controversy in 2015, after he shared an X post which stated that the word "racist" was no longer an insult but had become a "title of honour."”

“Valentina Gomez... sharing an X video depicting her burning a Quran in August 2025”

“In 2013, the UK's then-home secretary, Theresa May, banned two US bloggers, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, from entering the country”

“Between May 2010 and December 2022, successive home secretaries under the Conservatives ordered the exclusion of 369 people from the UK”

“Starmer's Labour government... came into power in July 2024”

“According to the "Counter-terrorism disruptive powers report", 15 individuals were excluded from the UK in 2024, because their presence in the UK was considered not conducive to the public good.”

“freedom of speech is protected under Article 10 of the Human Rights Act 1998”

“The 1986 Public Order Act, amended by the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006, criminalises rhetoric which incites racial or religious hatred.”

“sharing false claims about the perpetrator of the July 2024 Southport attacks. He alleged that the attacker... was a Muslim asylum seeker who had just arrived in the UK on a small boat. In reality, the 17-year-old perpetrator was born in Cardiff, Wales, to Rwandan parents and had no known connection to Islam.”

“during Labour's first year in office, migration to the UK fell by more than two-thirds in the year ending June 2025 — the lowest annual figure since 2021, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).”

“The UK's 204,000 net migration figure sharply contrasts with the recorded peak of 944,000 in the year ending March 2023”

“A 2025 study by the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford states... non-UK citizens are underrepresented in the prison population; and non-Brits are overrepresented among offenders for drug offences, but underrepresented for robbery or physical violence”