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Ian Youngs Culture reporter

PA Media

Jewish groups and MPs have called on the Wireless Festival to cancel Kanye West's headline booking and for the government to ban the US rapper from the UK over his history of antisemitism.

The star, now known as Ye, released a song called Heil Hitler and sold swastika T-shirts last year before apologising and blaming his bipolar disorder.

He is due to play at the London event in July - but two sponsors withdrew on Sunday. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer called the booking "deeply concerning".

Stephen Silverman from the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) said on Monday that the booking was "astonishing".…