LONDON: British authorities have barred a far-right French writer from visiting the UK, his publisher said on Friday.

Renaud Camus was set to give a speech at a hardright political party event in Britain next week, but officials turned down his request for a travel permit, his English-language publisher Vauban Books said.

The publisher said the UK`s interior ministry told Camus his presence in the UK was not considered `conducive to the public good`, though the ministry has not commented.

Camus is known for his 2011 book `The GreatReplacement` and its conspiratorial argument that white Europeans are being deliberately supplanted by non-white immigrants.

The idea has inspired extreme-right figures like the Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in attacks on two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch in 2019. Camus said on X that his application for an Electronic Travel Authorisation had been rejected.

`I have just been notified that I am banned from entering the United Kingdom, where I was due to give a speech next week,` he posted.-AFP