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Steve Bannon smuggled into Oxford Union to avoid protesters outside
The former White House adviser tells a half-empty room that his zero-tolerance border law was a ‘humanitarian policy’
Anti-racism protesters outside Edinburgh International Conference Centre, where former White House advisor, Steve Bannon spoke at the European Broadcasting Union's News Xchange event

FASCIST former White House adviser Steve Bannon was smuggled into the Oxford Union building from the back of a police riot van on Friday to give a speech to avoid the hundreds of protesters outside.

Addressing a half-empty room, the former chief strategist for Donald Trump claimed that his zero-tolerance border law, which sparked global outrage over migrant children being separated from their parents and put into cages, was a “humanitarian policy.”

Mr Bannon, who has links with white supremacist groups in the US, is touring European countries in an apparent attempt to build a network of anti-Islam organisations.

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