An interfaith organisation has called on the Home Office to ban two members of a far-right political party from attending an event in Bury on Sunday.

Faith Matters has asked the government to block two members of KORWiN, a Polish right wing political party, from speaking at a "freedom picnic" at the Polish Social Centre in Bury on Back East Street at 10.30am.

The party, whose manifesto includes the reintroduction of the death penalty, currently have two members in the Sejm, the Polish Parliament.

In a post on Facebook, the Polish Social Centre announced that it will host the party’s founder Janusz Korwin-Mikke, who in 2015 was suspended from the European Parliament for making Nazi salutes.

The post has been deleted but the event is still listed to go ahed.

Mr Korwin-Mikke was once again suspended from the parliament in 2017 after suggesting women should earn less than men as they are “weaker, smaller and less intelligent”.

His suspension was overturned the following year.

Also attending the event will be KORWiN vice chairman, Konrad Berkowicz and Sebastian Ross, the vice president of the party’s London branch, according to the event information.

Last year, Mr Ross stood in the Welsh Assembly elections as the UKIP candidate for Wrexham.

During his campaign he described the climate emergency as “made-up”.

Faith Matters also condemned a previous "freedom picnic" that took place in Bury in 2019 which was attended by both Sebastian Ross and Janusz Korwin-Mikke.

It has asked the government to prevent members of KORWiN from entering the country for this year’s event and has submitted which highlights recent Islamophobic tweets posted by the KOWiN founder including one in which he promotes conspiracies about an "Islamic takeover".

A spokesperson for Faith Matters said: “Far right politicians from other countries should not really be allowed to come to the UK to spread their deeply divisive and polarising messages.

"Our country has many pressures and we really do not need people to play on pressures to divide communities. We need peacemakers not polarisers”.

Attempts have been made to contact the Polish Social Centre about the event.

The Home Office has been approached for a comment.