Even Nigel Farage Doesn't Want Anything To Do With CPAC When It Arrives In UK This Summer (Hosted By Liz Truss!!)
Nigel Farage will snub a major conference of US conservatives that is being brought to the UK by Liz Truss. The short-lived former prime minister, who was accused of crashing the economy, was chosen by the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to lead a version of the event in the UK in July.
She announced this on stage in Texas on Monday while next to Matt Schlapp, commentator and chair of the event, which in the US has hosted major figures including Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Tulsi Gabbard and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán.
However, mainstream conservative figures in the UK seem wary to be associated with the Truss-led event. “We will be steering well clear of it,” a Reform UK source said, dashing any hopes that Farage would attend. Jacob Rees-Mogg, a prominent Conservative and former minister in Truss’s cabinet, is also understood to have no interest in making an appearance. A spokesperson for Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservative party, said she has “no plans” to show up.
Truss has boasted she will be “bringing together conservatives from all parties” in order to save “woke” Britain from “terminal decline” for the event in London on 16-18 July, with tickets on sale from tomorrow. She will be hoping she can emulate the US success of CPAC, which was founded in 1974 and hosted Donald Trump in 2011, an appearance said to have kickstarted his popularity with the Republican party.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/31/nigel-farage-snub-us-conservative-conference-cpac-uk-liz-truss
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