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Farage, MPs, ADF Hold Corporate-Backed Culture-War Summit

6/19/2026

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At London’s Olympia, the summit gathered Nigel Farage (UK politician), UK MPs, and Alliance Defending Freedom reps, prompting reproductive-rights groups to warn culture-war politics are entering Britain.
State Department official Samuel Samson (State Department) met Germany’s AfD and discussed abortion and censorship with Farage, while BP, Johnson & Johnson and Rio Tinto funded the event.
Professor Tim Bale (professor) said the gathering shows erosion of boundary between mainstream conservatives and far-right insurgents.

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At London’s Olympia, the summit gathered Nigel Farage (UK politician), UK MPs, and Alliance Defending Freedom reps, prompting reproductive-rights groups to warn culture-war politics are entering Britain.
State Department official Samuel Samson (State Department) met Germany’s AfD and discussed abortion and censorship with Farage, while BP, Johnson & Johnson and Rio Tinto funded the event.
Professor Tim Bale (professor) said the gathering shows erosion of boundary between mainstream conservatives and far-right insurgents.