MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Friday, Vote Leave co-chairman Gisela Stuart addressed May in an official letter, urging the home secretary to refuse Le Pen admission into the country over her "divisive and inflammatory comments" on immigration.
"We've asked for her to be banned but the home secretary has refused to do it. She won't do it," Duncan Smith told the ITV broadcaster in an interview on Monday.
The politician clarified that May would not ban the French Eurosceptic because of EU rules prohibiting her to refuse entry to Le Pen.
UK citizens are set to vote on June 23 in a referendum on the country's EU membership, after Prime Minister David Cameron and the leaders of the other 27 European Union member states reached a deal in February to grant the United Kingdom a special status within the bloc.