US black political leader Louis Farrakhan today dramatically won his High Court battle against a continuing Government ban preventing him visiting the United Kingdom.
The controversial head of the Nation of Islam has been excluded from Britain since 1986 by successive Home Secretaries.
Today Mr Justice Turner ruled that the ban must be quashed and said he would give his full reasons at a later date.
The Government had argued that it was still entitled to maintain the ban because of fears that Mr Farrakhan's presence could lead to public disorder following apparently anti-Semitic remarks he has made in the past.
But Mr Farrakhan, now aged 67 and battling against cancer, today successfully challenged last November's decision by the then Home Secretary, Jack Straw, to continue his exclusion.
The ruling means that the Government will now have to reconsider its position.
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