Nigel Farage and fellow Reform UK MPs Sarah Pochin and Andrew Rosindell are set to attend the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (Arc) conference in London, a rightwing summit dubbed the ‘anti-woke Davos’. The event, co-founded by Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, will bring together populist politicians, US state officials, and anti-abortion activists from around the world.
Among the 4,000 attendees from over 85 countries are two Eton College staff: deputy head Tom Arbuthnott and theology master Luke Martin, who previously resigned from a role in protest at the school’s modernisation. The three-day conference at Olympia London will feature speeches from Sarah B Rogers, the US undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, who has promoted far-right parties and attacked European policies on hate speech and immigration.
Other US government attendees include Samuel Samson, a state department official who challenged Britain’s online safety laws, and Jon Morgan, a senior official in Vice-President JD Vance’s office. A strong anti-abortion presence includes over a dozen representatives of the Alliance Defending Freedom, the group behind the overturning of Roe v Wade. Rodney Mims Cook Jr, chair of the US Commission of Fine Arts, is also expected after attending a summit in Russia.
European far-right attendees include members of Germany’s AfD, Belgium’s Vlaams Belang, Spain’s Vox, and the Netherlands’ Party for Freedom. Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch will give a keynote speech, vying with Farage for conservative leadership. At least 40 UK MPs are attending, along with wealthy donors such as Paul Marshall, co-owner of GB News, and Dubai-based investors.
The conference, now in its third year, is guided by Christian evangelical thinking and hostility to net zero and climate scepticism. It has grown rapidly thanks to lavish funding that outshines other conservative events, including Liz Truss’s ‘Great British-PAC’ venture.
