Julien Blanc banned from Britain Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, said he was "very pleased" that Lib Dem Home Office minister Lynne Featherstone had "pushed for Julien Blanc to be denied entry to the UK." Miss Featherstone said: "Julien Blanc's presence in the UK could have led to an increase in sexual violence and harassment. I am delighted that Mr Blanc won't be coming to our shores. Home Office sources said the American's presence in this country was not believed to be "conducive to the public good" - one of the reasons the Home Secretary can put forward for refusing permission to enter Britain. Sarah Green, of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, welcomed the decision to bar Mr Blanc for what she described as "behaviour amounting to sexual harassment and sexual assault." "Julien Blanc may have thought his brand of racism and misogyny would be acceptable in the UK but actually people here reject such incitement and hate," she said. Hopefully the market for such coaching will soon collapse altogether. Ian Macdonald QC, of the Immigration Law Practitioners" Association, said: "This was obviously a measured decision and there has been some agitation for it. The choice faced by the Home Secretary was whether to stop what is essentially a hate speech going ahead, or permit it to take place and then answer it. Men are reputed to pay Swiss-born Mr Blanc £1,000 an hour to learn his techniques, which purport to show how to manipulate women into sex. His website claims he can show how to "make girls BEG to sleep with you after SHORT-CIRCUITING their emotional and logical mind." In one video posted online by his organisation, Mr Blanc says: "In Tokyo, if you're a white male, you can do what you want. I'm just romping through the streets, just grabbing girls' heads. More than 150,000 people signed a petition demanding action by Mrs May to prevent his events taking place. The petition was started on the Change.org website by a woman using the pseudonym Caroline Charles. She said in a statement: "I'm very pleased that we have achieved the outcome we wanted. That the petition garnered so much attention in such a short period of time only highlights the everyday, ongoing relevance of sexism and misogyny.  Mr Blanc has previously been refused entry to Australia and Brazil. The Home Office spokesman said: "The Home Secretary has the power to exclude an individual if she considers that his or her presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good or if their exclusion is justified on public policy grounds. It is longstanding practice that we do not comment on individual exclusion cases unless they are made public by the excluded individual. This Home Secretary has excluded more foreign nationals on the grounds of unacceptable behaviour than any before her.