HL Deb 08 March 1999 vol 598 c4WA
Lord McNair

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they intend to ban Mr. Salah Idris from the United Kingdom. [HL1318]

Lord Williams of Mostyn

No. A foreign national may be excluded from the United Kingdom if his presence here is deemed not to be conducive to the public good, as being in the interests of national security or of the relations between the United Kingdom and any other country or for other reasons of a political nature. My right honourable friend the Home Secretary is not at present aware of any information to suggest that he should exercise his personal power to exclude Mr. Idris from the United Kingdom.