Speaker at UK conservatism event echoes far right in attack on ‘globalists’

Kevin Roberts repeatedly mentions idea criticised as antisemitic trope at conference attended by Tory MPs

One of the main speakers at a conference attended by two cabinet ministers and a series of other Tory MPs has blamed “globalists” for the world’s political problems, repeatedly using a term associated with the far right and antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, a US thinktank, mentioned the idea, which has been condemned by Jewish groups as an antisemitic trope, more than a dozen times in his address to the National Conservatism (NatCon) event in London.

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