Suella Braverman Slams Brussels Mayor For Sending ‘Thought Police’ To Shutdown NatCon

Former Home Secretary and Tory MP Suella Braverman blasted authorities in Brussels for the abrupt shutdown of the National Conservatism Conference (NatCon) on Tuesday.

Just two hours in, police arrived with an order to close down the event citing “the possibility of public disorder” and announced that the conference would be wound down “gradually” as the afternoon progressed. According to Yoram Hazony, chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation, attendees would be allowed to leave but would not be granted re-entry.

The two-day event continued through the afternoon, featuring speeches from Braverman, GB News host and Brexiteer Nigel Farage and appearances by Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán and French politician Eric Zemmour. Organisers scrambled to acquire a court order to block the police action.

Speaking to Sky News reporter Darren McCaffery, Braverman said: “I’m here with like-minded democrats, democratically elected politicians, leaders and experts in our fields and we are here talking about the issues that matter to the British people but also many citizens around Europe: securing our borders, making our communities safer, and how to protect our countries.”

She continued: “And it’s a real shame that the thought police instructed by the mayor of Brussels saw fit to try and undermine and denigrate what is free speech and free debate.”

Braverman added: “I remember the words of Mrs [Margaret] Thatcher, and I’m going to misquote her, but the more ridiculous and far-fetched and extremist their attempts are to silence us, the more cheered on I am, because it just shows that they’ve lost the political argument.”

Farage, managing to address the crowd before the shutdown, decried the move as “simply monstrous.” He said: “I knew I wouldn’t be welcome back in Brussels.”

Watch above on Sky News.