Leading figures from Eton college to attend rightwing London summit

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The Reform UK MPs Sarah Pochin and Andrew Rosindell will be there. As will a plethora of Reform advisers, backroom staff and figures such as Ben Delo, a British crypto billionaire who has given £4m to Nigel Farage’s party .

Yet as populist-right politicians from across the globe and their multimillionaire backers prepare for this year’s Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (Arc) – a rightwing London summit labelled an “anti-woke” Davos – others whose expected attendance has not been publicised potentially raises more questions.

They include two leading figures from Eton college: Tom Arbuthnott, who is the elite school’s deputy head (partnerships), and Luke Martin, a theology master at the school.

Martin was previously at odds with the school’s modernisation and resigned from a role in 2020 in protest at the dismissal of another teacher, taking issue with the promotion of a “so-called progressive ideology” at the school, which he likened to religious fundamentalism. He remains a teacher at Eton, where he is master of divinity.

He will be among 4,000 people from more than 85 countries descending on London’s Olympia exhibition centre for three days of speeches and discussions hosted by Arc.

Speakers will include Sarah B Rogers, the US undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and an official who has become the public face of the Trump administration’s growing hostility to European liberal democracies .

She has attacked policies on hate speech and immigration by ostensible US allies, and promoted far-right parties.