The Global Story: British CPAC - Can MAGA politics be exported to the UK?
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Redgo. Chinaos je tie palvelut. Hey there, it's Asma Khalid, one of the hosts of the Global Story podcast from the BBC. And as a bonus for your feed, we're bringing you one of our very best episodes from this past week. Now, every weekday on our show, we tell one story about where the world and America meet. And this week, the American right-wing movement landed in London with the first CPAC in Great Britain. The Conservative Political Action Conference started in the United States. And The Global Story decided to go visit the London version and report on the attempt to export MAGA to the UK. And by the way, if you all do enjoy this episode, which I really hope you do, you can find more of us by searching for The Global Story wherever you get your podcasts.
Now, on to the show.
Australia. We'll be in Japan. We'll be back in Argentina. We'll be back in Poland. We're going to be in Germany.
The Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC. Think of it as a sort of political Coachella for the MAGA movement.
In Italy, obviously, Great Britain, we haven't given up on Western Europe at all.
And it's expanding overseas. This is Matt Schlapp, chair of CPAC, at its first event in the United Kingdom a few days ago.
What they are doing in your country to destroy it, they are doing in my country to destroy it. This is the fight of our lives.
Some VIP tickets for the London event were priced at more than $13,000, prices that many people in the UK would balk at. And there was an American-style feel to the event. Prayers to open the meeting, popular outright podcasters and anti-abortion speakers flown in from the US. The tagline of the event was Save Britain, Save the West. From the BBC, I'm Tristan Redman in London. And today on The Global Story, how much appeal does the MAGA movement have outside the United States? We've been to CPAC Great Britain to find out. And I'm very pleased to say that today we are joined by our very own Hannah Moore, producer on The Global Story.
What was CPAC Great Britain and why did The Global Story attend?
And Hannah, you have been at CPAC UK.
Yeah, the Conservative Political Action Conference, the first one of its kind to be held in Great Britain. I spent several days in a hot and sweaty conference room and I'm here to hopefully enlighten you about what it was all about.
Well, we're going to get on to all of that, Hannah, and all the people that you've met along the way there. But what actually is CPAC? Where does it come from? What's it supposed to do?
OK, so the Conservative Political Action Conference was founded in 1974. Ronald Reagan was one of the first speakers. And for the first few years, CPAC was this kind of grassroots event that which was about exchanging conservative ideas. So it's about bringing people together from across the movement. And it's become a barometer of who's up and who's down in the Republican Party. CPAC has also expanded to other countries. It's been in Hungary, Poland, Brazil. And, you know, you get these big right wing figures like Viktor Orban, the former prime minister of Hungary. Javier Millay, the president of Argentina, he spoke at CPAC in the US. You remember the scene of him handing the chainsaw to Elon Musk and saying, you know, we're going to slash state spending.
This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.
So you get these kind of like set piece, big speeches from big figures across the right. And this is the first time that sort of brand is coming to the UK.
Well, the pictures that I've seen of CPAC in the United States are always of kind of large scale, glitzy, flashy affairs. When you think of political events in the UK, it's more sort of urns of tea and biscuits and maybe sort of evening receptions with slightly warm white wine.
Sounds good to me.
How does the American style political event transpose to the UK format?
So CPAC Great Britain took place at the Intercontinental Hotel near the O2. The O2 is one of the biggest music venues in the UK. I was there a few weeks ago watching Robin.
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4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:48
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What was CPAC Great Britain and why did The Global Story attend?
2:48–14:08
3
How has CPAC evolved from its 1974 roots into an international MAGA platform?
14:08–19:37
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How did CPAC’s American event style translate to the UK setting and audience?
19:37–30:28
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