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Rishi Sunak and Belgian PM criticise mayor’s halting of NatCon conference
Emir Kir ordered police to close down radical rightwing conference attended by Suella Braverman and Nigel Farage
The UK prime minister has rounded on Belgian authorities for closing down a radical rightwing conference in Brussels that was addressed by British politicians including Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman.
After a day of chaos, claims and recriminations, the decision by a local Belgian mayor to stop the National Conservatives (NatCon) event was also condemned as “unacceptable” by Belgium’s prime minister, Alexander De Croo.
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