Nigel Farage says he feels vindicated for Brexit after police attempts to shut down a conference he was speaking at.
The GB News star and Suella Braverman were among the speakers at the National Conservatism Conference (NatCon) which aims to bring together voices from across Europe to speak on the continent’s future political outlook.
But the event was marred by the Brussels’ mayor who ordered organisers to wrap up the conference within just 15 minutes.
Police ordered the event to be shut down, sparking outrage from speakers and guests in the process.
Nigel Farage has blasted a move to shut him down
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Farage joined Tom Harwood and Emily Carver to lament the disorder on display.
“No alternative opinion allowed. This is the updated form of communism”, he said.
Nigel Farage was delivering a speech at the event
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Nigel Farage's speech at a right-wing conference was marred by police
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“If anything ever made me think that Brexit was the right thing to do, it’s the events here in Brussels today.”
Asked by Tom Harwood how he would respond should the police force him off the premises, the former Brexit Party leader said while he is not ‘given to violence’, it is clear the event will be closed down.
“I’m not given to violence so I won’t avail myself of it, but it’s pretty clear it will be closed down.
“They are using public order, but that is no excuse at all.
”There is no public order threat in here whatsoever.”
According to a report in local outlet the Brussels Times, “anti-fascist” protestors were threatening the venue while demanding the event be called off entirely.
Police told GB News they had issued a public order notice due to the “threat of protest” at the event, but Farage insists there was no such issue.
Speaking on stage, the GB News presenter lamented the decision to close the conference as “monstrous” as he raged at the “extreme intolerance” of authorities.
Speaking on Good Afternoon Britain, Farage likened the experience to being “banned from restaurants, bars and coffee shops” during his time as an MEP for holding “alternative points of view”.
But he slammed the police's and "ghastly" Mayor of Brussels' intervention at NatCon as the event rolled on, claiming the Socialist Party mayor, Philippe Close, was "harassing" him.