Two US political commentators banned from entering UK

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Two prominent US political commentators who were due to speak at events in the UK this week have been banned from entering the country by the Home Office. Cenk Uygur, the host of the Young Turks online political talkshow, and Hasan Piker, who runs his own hours-long stream each day, have been stopped from appearing at SXSW London, while the former said he had also been due to speak at an event run by University of Oxford students. “I’ve been banned from the UK,” Uygur said on social media. “I tr