Greg Lance - Watkins (Greg_L-W)
5:31PM GMT 16 Feb 2015
Nigel Farage will speak alongside Sarah Palin and some of America’s most extreme Right-wing conservatives at a conference in Washington next week.
The Ukip leader will share a stage with a host of gun activists, Tea Party leaders and anti-abortion campaigners at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
Visitors to the summit are sometimes handed plastic fetuses by Evangelical Christian activists as a symbol of their opposition to abortion, while some Tea Party supporters walk the halls in uniforms from the 18th-century American Revolutionary War.
Plastic fetuses handed out at the CPAC conference (Picture by Dan Amira)
Mr Farage’s string of election wins has intrigued some on the American Right and his address at the Gaylord centre is expected to be met with interest by Republicans.
The CPAC conference draws in conservatives from across the US and is considered a chance for potential Republican presidential candidates to audition before the party base.
Mr Farage will share the podium with at least four of the Republican politicians vying for the chance to be their party’s standard bearer in the 2016 election and face off against Hillary Clinton.
The Ukip leader told The Telegraph: “There are parts of the American Conservative movement that I get on well with and other parts not so well with.
“We have learned quite a lot from some of them in terms of campaigning techniques, many of which we put into use in Rochester.
“Some of the very hard-line religious stuff is not where I’m going with politics and I often find myself disagreeing about interventionist foreign policies.”
Sarah Palin speaks at CPAC 2014 (Getty)Other speakers include Mrs Palin, the former governor of Alaska, and Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association (NRA), America’s leading gun lobby group.
Mr LaPierre is credited with thwarting the White House’s attempts to bring in new gun laws in the wake of the 2012 Newtown massacre, when 20 primary school children were murdered in Connecticut.
“The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun,” Mr LaPierre said one week after the massacre.
While Mr Farage is not well known in the US, he has begun to make regular appearances on Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News channel.
Last month he caused outrage in France by telling Fox that “most of the big French cities” have “no-go zones” where non-Muslims are not allowed.
The French embassy in London denounced the comments and the mayor of Paris has threatened to sue Fox over its coverage.
Steve Emerson tells the Fox news anchor that Birmingham is a no-go area for non-MuslimsThe US channel was forced to apologise after a so-called terrorism expert said that Birmingham was a “totally Muslim city”.
Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union (ACU), told Breitbart News that Mr Farage’s presence was “a significant reminder” to the Republican Party “that it can only be successful if it captures the hearts of conservatives”.
The Republican Party has been fighting a long-running internal battle between the party elite and the more radically conservative base.
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