Liz Truss opened CPAC GB in London, launching the first British spin-off of CPAC with Jack Posobiec and George Simion among the speakers. The three-day event draws attendees who paid between £100 and £10,000, and it is being used to showcase her return to the British right.
London’s first CPAC GB
Posobiec was billed as a keynote speaker, and he told the gathering: “The British people must rise up and take back their country.” George Simion spoke on Thursday and said: “This is not diversity. This is replacement. The answer is remigration. Legal, orderly but firm,” linking the London event to hard-right themes that have circulated across the CPAC gathering.
The event presents itself as a bridge uniting common sense politics, and it arrives after other CPAC spin-offs in Europe and Australia. That comparison matters because CPAC GB is still the first British iteration, so the scale in London is being tested against a format that has already traveled abroad but has not had a British base until now.
Conservative party split
Truss remains a member of the Conservative party while trying to reboot her political career, a detail that places the London event inside a live argument about who speaks for the British right. Kemi Badenoch has tried to distance herself from Truss’s economic legacy and said she wanted a period of silence from Truss, even as Truss uses CPAC GB to rebuild influence.
Suella Braverman paid tribute to Truss on Thursday and described her as among the “leaders on the right.” Braverman also used the event to attack attempts to be anti-racist, saying: “Inequality has been embedded in our society precisely because of attempts to create equality.” She added: “Attempts to be anti-racist have institutionalised anti-white racism. A whole swathe of the population is now excluded from opportunities by those preaching inclusion.”
Friday speakers in London
Nigel Farage is due to speak on Friday, and Pauline Hanson is due to speak in the next two days. Their appearances extend the London event beyond a single rally moment and keep the focus on a transnational network of politicians and activists gathered under the CPAC banner.
For Truss, the immediate question is not whether CPAC GB can fill a room; it already has people paying up to £10,000 to attend. It is how much authority the event gives her on the British right after six weeks of visible effort to present herself as a political force again, with Friday’s speech list still set to add another test.
