Nigel Farage's anti-cancel culture conference has been cancelled.
'Counter Conference', a right-wing talking shop to take place at The O2's 3,000 capacity Indigo venue next week was set to feature the former Ukip leader, fresh from interviewing Donald Trump on GB News.
Provocateur Laurence Fox, former Trump aide Jason Miller and former US Housing Secretary Ben Carson were also set to appear at the event, organised by Mr Miller’s right-wing Twitter alternative GETTR.
But organisers pulled the plug on Tuesday night, blaming new Covid border rules which require self-isolation on arrival in the UK.
A spokesperson for GETTR said the new rules would make "scheduling travel to the conference impossible for many of the conference’s confirmed speakers and participants."
But the Spectator reported tickets for the event had sold slowly, which organisers blamed on the venue requiring vaccine or test certificates be shown on entry.
It's claimed just 400 tickets had been shifted when the event was pulled.
Organisers said in a statement: “Due to the UK’s newly-mandated travel restrictions, we regret to announce that the Counter Conference event that was to be held on the 8th December at Indigo at The O2 has been cancelled.”
Mr Fox, named in the company's press release as the event's "innovator", added: "We will not give up on our initiatives to take back our Western birthrights and the Counter Conference will be held in the coming months bigger than ever."
Before its cancellation, the event was billed as “a day of hotly-anticipated panels and keynote speeches on free speech topics, Counter Conference will be a celebration of the intellectual rebellion against the status quo.”
