Reform UK MPs Sarah Pochin and Andrew Rosindell, along with British crypto billionaire Ben Delo, who has given £4m to Nigel Farage's party, will attend the three-day summit at London's Olympia exhibition centre. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing The Guardian.
However, among the expected attendees are two leading figures from Eton College: Tom Arbuthnott, the school's deputy head (partnerships), and Luke Martin, a theology master. Martin previously 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. He remains a teacher at Eton.
The summit is expected to draw 4,000 people from more than 85 countries. Speakers include Sarah B Rogers, US undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, who has become the public face of the Trump administration's hostility to European liberal democracies. Other US government attendees include Samuel Samson, a state department official who challenged Britain's online safety laws, and Jon Morgan, a senior official in the office of Vice President JD Vance.
A strong anti-abortion presence includes more than a dozen representatives of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the conservative legal advocacy group behind the overturning of Roe v Wade in the US. Another expected Trump official is Rodney Mims Cook Jr, chair of the US Commission of Fine Arts, arriving after attending a summit in Russia.
Christian evangelical political thinking is a key theme, alongside hostility to net zero and climate skepticism. European far-right attendees include members of Germany's AfD, Belgium's Vlaams Belang, Spain's Vox, and the Netherlands' Party for Freedom.
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is once again a keynote speaker. At least 40 UK MPs are expected to attend. Main funders include Paul Marshall, co-owner of GB News, and Dubai-based investment fund Legatum. Last year, Marshall claimed countries were "being infected by an ideological zeal" leading them to adopt net zero plans.
Corporate attendees include Johnson & Johnson, Palantir, BP, Philip Morris International, Rio Tinto, Airbus, Sanofi, US investment fund RedBird Capital, and DP World. An Arc spokesperson said the conference aims to bring together leaders across business, culture, politics, and technology to discuss how to "recover civilisational foundations."
