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Pressure mounts on UK government to ban Kanye West after festival backlash

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Pressure mounts on UK government to ban Kanye West after festival backlash
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The British government was under growing pressure on Monday to bar American rapper Kanye West from entering the country after he was named as the headline act for the Wireless Festival of rap and hip-hop music set for July.
West, now known as Ye, has been criticised in the past for antisemitic remarks and celebration of Nazism, which have led on several occasions to his ‌social media accounts, including on X, being barred.
The decision to book Ye prompted several companies to pull their...

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