A VIP table at the National Conservatism conference 2024 in Brussels cost €20,000, the sort of money for which you don’t expect to be separated from your refreshments by a police blockade.
It is, as far as I understand it, technically correct to say that NatCon 2024 was shut down by police on grounds of public order. It is technically correct to say that the conference was shut down while Nigel Farage was addressing it, but the conference ending midway through his speech was a subject that he dealt with via a couple of ad-libbed paragraphs.
Moments later, Suella Braverman came to the stage and delivered a full speech to a conference that had already been shut down, giving the occasion a real 1993
