Jewish groups have raised concerns about the chair of the Office for Students participating in a conference in Hungary which featured a far-right journalist accused of anti-Semitism.
Lord Wharton of Yarm, a Conservative peer who chairs the indepependent OfS, sent a video message to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Hungary – an event featuring a speaker who previously described Jews as “stinking excrement”.
In the message, Lord Wharton also endorsed the re-election of Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister responsible for forcing a university out of his country, and criticised for cracking down on independent media.
CPAC, run by the American Conservative Union, chose Hungary as a venue to learn lessons from the fourth victory of Mr Orbán’s right-wing populist party, Fidesz, in last month’s election.
