The chair of the UK’s higher education regulator has been criticised for participating in a controversial right-wing conference in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary that also featured speakers who had previously expressed antisemitic and racist views.
Lord Wharton of Yarm, the chair of the Office for Students (OfS), sent a video message to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), run by the influential American Conservative Union, which has close ties to former president Donald Trump.
The choice of Hungary as a venue was intentional for the organisation’s first major event outside of the US, as it sought to learn lessons from the fourth victory of Mr Orbán’s right-wing populist party, Fidesz, in last month’s election.
