Marine Le Pen: I would abolish open borders

Leader of the Front National tells the Oxford Union it is time to stop free movement of jihadists

Far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen
(Image credit: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/Getty Images)

Hundreds of jeering protesters disrupted Marine Le Pen's appearance at the Oxford Union's prestigious debating society yesterday, delaying the event by over an hour.

Demonstrators chanted "This is free speech, that is a platform" and "Le Pen – we know your daddy was a fascist too" in reference to Marine’s father, the founder of the Front National, who once said Nazi death camps were a "detail of Second World War history."

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