Stand off between organisers and police at controversial right wing conference
Nigel Farage, honorary president of the Reform UK party, at the National Conservatism Conference in Brussels: Efforts to shut down the event were a 'monstrous' attack on free speech. Photograph: Omar Havana/Getty
Farage, whose speech had been listed to start at 11.15am, took to the stage to applause about an hour and a half later. The former Eurosceptic MEP rolled back the years, settling into a familiar riff against the “unelected” bureaucratic and elitist forces that he said ran the EU. Belgian police block the entrance to the venue hosting the National Conservatism Conference in Brussels. Photograph: Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP via Getty Images
Former British home secretary Suella Braverman also spoke at the event. Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister, was due to appear. Tom Vandendriessche, a Belgian MEP from the far-right Identity and Democracy group, used his time on the stage to rail against the EU elites whose environmental reforms were “climate madness”, asylum seekers who were “invading Europe” and “woke in doctrination”.
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