{"id":2464,"date":"2026-05-23T01:21:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/uk-free-speech-cannot-rest-on-bans-ecr\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:58:24","slug":"uk-free-speech-cannot-rest-on-bans-ecr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/uk-free-speech-cannot-rest-on-bans-ecr\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Free Speech Cannot Rest on Bans: ECR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As The European Conservative reports, <strong>Dominik Tarczy\u0144ski<\/strong>, a member of Poland&#8217;s Law and Justice party and ECR member of the European Parliament, was barred from entering the United Kingdom ahead of the Unite the Kingdom rally organised by <strong>Tommy Robinson<\/strong>. The incident has triggered accusations that the government is undermining the very freedoms it claims to protect.<\/p>\n<p>The ECR group issued a sharp rebuke on social media, stating that <em>&#8220;you don&#8217;t protect free speech by silencing the people you disagree with.&#8221;<\/em> The party challenged the government&#8217;s stated rationale for the visa revocation, suggesting the decision contradicts Britain&#8217;s commitment to open debate and democratic discourse.<\/p>\n<p>Tarczy\u0144ski has indicated he intends to pursue legal proceedings against Prime Minister <strong>Keir Starmer<\/strong> over the travel ban. He joins several other right-wing commentators and activists who faced similar restrictions in connection with the London gathering.<\/p>\n<h2>Home Office Takes Broader Action<\/h2>\n<p>The UK Home Office confirmed that seven individuals total had their electronic travel authorisations either revoked or rejected. Home Secretary <strong>Shabana Mahmood<\/strong> justified the measure by asserting their presence would not be <em>&#8220;conducive to the public good.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The decision raises questions about where authorities draw the line between legitimate security concerns and suppression of lawful political expression\u2014a tension at the heart of contemporary British governance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/europeanconservative.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The European Conservative<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish MEP Dominik Tarczy\u0144ski was barred from entering the United Kingdom ahead of a Tommy Robinson rally, prompting accusations that the government is suppressing free speech rather than protecting it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":2463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[2186,2187,2189,2188,2163,2185,2190],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dominik-tarczynski-poland","tag-european-conservatives-reformists","tag-law-and-justice-party","tag-london-unite-the-kingdom-rally","tag-tommy-robinson","tag-uk-free-speech-ban","tag-visa-denial","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2544,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/2544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}