Controversial far-right activist Tommy Robinson has said he has been detained in Mexico while attempting to visit the country on holiday with his three children.

The English Defence League founder shared a video on social media and said that he had been detained in Cancun airport upon arrival with his three children. Robinson said: "I'm being deported as a matter of national security. I've never broken a law here.

All I do at home is talk about Islam."The video emerged the week after he failed to attend a high court hearing where he was to be questioned about his finances after losing a libel case. He claimed he was bankrupt and unable to pay the £100,000 in damages. Robinson could face jail over possible contempt of court for not turning up to last week's hearing.

Nick Lowles, CEO of Hope Not Hate, the UK's leading antifascism and antiracism campaign group, said, "Tommy Robinson was apparently detained in Mexico after trying to go on holiday. Yet he has repeatedly claimed that he is bankrupt. Just last week, Robinson failed to attend court regarding the ongoing investigation into his bankruptcy. The very fact that a supposedly bankrupt man can afford to go on holiday to Mexico speaks for itself."