Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Summit Draws Global Right-Wing Leaders, Corporate Sponsors, and Eton Figures

From 18 June to 20 June 2026, the Olympia exhibition centre hosted the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (Arc) summit. Approximately 4,000 participants from more than 85 countries gathered for three days of speeches and panel discussions. The roster included Reform UK MPs Nigel Farage, Sarah Pochin and Andrew Rosindell, U.S. under-secretary of state for public diplomacy Sarah B Rogers, and senior officials such as Samuel Samson and Jon Morgan. Two senior staff from Eton College—deputy head of partnerships Tom Arbuthnott and theology master Luke Martin—were also listed among the attendees.

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Arc was launched in 2023 by figures including Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson and British Tory peer Philippa Stroud. Marketed as an “anti-woke Davos,” the conference has quickly become a platform for right-wing policy agendas, notably opposition to net-zero climate targets, climate-change scepticism, and coordinated anti-abortion activism.

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• Politicians: In addition to Farage and Reform UK representatives, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch delivered a keynote address. European far-right parties were represented by Germany’s AfD, Belgium’s Vlaams Belang, Spain’s Vox, and the Netherlands’ Party for Freedom.

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• Activist Groups: More than a dozen delegates from the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the U.S. legal group behind the overturning of Roe v. Wade, attended.

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• Corporate Sponsors: Johnson & Johnson, Palantir, BP, Philip Morris International, Rio Tinto, Airbus, Sanofi, RedBird Capital and DP World (owned by the Dubai government) were listed as corporate participants.

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• Funding Sources: Primary financiers include Paul Marshall (co-owner of GB News) and the Dubai-based investment fund Legatum, with historic backing from American fossil-fuel interests and prominent Trump donors.

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• Attendees: ? 4,000 participants

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• Countries Represented: > 85

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• UK MPs: >= 40

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• ADF Representatives: > 12

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Arc’s spokesperson described the event as a forum to “bring together leaders across business, culture, politics, and technology to discuss how to recover civilisational foundations.” The spokesperson added that the summit now addresses “demographic decline as a major risk for the west.”

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Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, argued that the gathering “is a symptom of the collapse of what used to be a heavily policed border between the far and the centre-right.” MSI Reproductive Choices warned that the presence of U.S. officials and activists “raises serious concerns about attempts to import U.S.–style culture-war politics into the UK.” Critics also highlighted the conference’s climate-policy stance, noting Paul Marshall’s claim that net-zero plans are driven by “ideological zeal” that sacrifices economic prosperity.

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• “When we launched in 2023, it was tantamount to heresy to challenge net zero – now everyone from Bill Gates and Tony Blair to leaders across the right have made the point that abundant, reliable, cheap energy is the base layer of modern civilisation.” — Arc spokesperson

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• “In his speech at the event last year, Marshall claimed countries were “being infected by an ideological zeal” that had led them to develop net zero plans and that economic prosperity was being sacrificed “for the sake of making some fractional changes to the level of CO 2 in the atmosphere”.” — Paul Marshall, co-owner of GB News

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• “Tim Bale, a professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, said: “The Arc gathering – and the fact that its attendees include politicians from both the outer fringes and the conventional parts of what it seems reasonable to call the rightwing international – is a symptom of the collapse of what used to be a heavily policed border between the far and the centre-right.” — Tim Bale, professor of politics

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Arc organizers have announced a follow-up event in July 2026, the “Great British-PAC” conference, while reform-oriented right-wing groups plan to expand their trans-Atlantic networks ahead of upcoming national elections in the UK and Europe.

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