Black separatist leader Louis Farrakhan has been refused leave to appeal by the House of Lords against the ban on his entry into the UK
Farrakhan, 69, had won a court battle to lift the ban in October last year but the Government then won an appeal in April. Three law lords issued the latest ruling but gave no reasons.
Government lawyers had said of the black leader: "To allow such a person into the country would pose a significant threat to community and public order." He had once described Judaism as a "gutter religion".
'Nothing to fear'
Farrakhan told The Guardian newspaper in May: "Britain has nothing to fear from listening to a man and making their own judgement as to whether he is worthy of being listened to or discarded."
He is currently on a tour of African and Middle Eastern countries. The Nation of Islam, a group that Farrakhan has led since the 1970s, advocates a separate state for American blacks.