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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Deputy political editor

DARK SECRETS: Speaker at uk conservatism event echoes far right in attack on globalists | Rare Historical Photos

Kevin Roberts
Kevin Roberts condemned what he called ‘the leftist control of globalist corporations and entities’. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

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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