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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says Kanye West's recent anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi comments are "vile", but adds that banning people from the country because of their views is "a dangerous path to go down". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00You've always been a big supporter of freedom of speech.
00:04Now, should Kanye West be allowed to perform at the Wireless Festival or should it be cancelled?
00:11I think that, for myself, I wouldn't buy a ticket.
00:16I wouldn't recommend anyone buys a ticket.
00:20I think his comments are vile, really vile.
00:26The sort of rabbit hole of anti-Semitism stroke-Nazism that he's gone down is vile.
00:33But I think if we start banning people from entering the country because we don't like what they say,
00:41I worry where that ends up.
00:43I worry where that ends up.
00:45I mean, if Keir Starmer was to ban people coming into Britain with whose views he doesn't like,
00:52almost nobody would be allowed in.
00:53So I think there's a dangerous path to go down.
00:56I suspect, Ross, the answer to this is the free market will sort this out.
01:01In that sponsors are withdrawing already, the festival itself is threatened,
01:06and I suspect very few people will buy tickets.
01:08for a few people recognizing that people give $5 billion in the future.
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