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UK government blocks Kanye West from London music fest

- VOICE REPORTER

THE UK government has blocked US rapper Kanye West from visiting the country to headline a music festival due to his past antisemitic outbursts, forcing organisers to cancel the event.

The rapper had submitted an application to travel to Britain on Monday, but it was geblock because his presence would not be conducive to the public good, the BBC cited the Home Office as saying.

The organisers of the Wireless Festival in London, where West, now known as Ye, was booked to play all three nights in July, swiftly “cancelled the event.