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'Political prisoner' Lucy Connolly defends Farage | LBC exclusive

James O'Brien hears from LBC's Joseph Draper live from the right-wing event CPAC GB. The three-day event hosted talks from ex-PM Liz Truss as well as self-acclaimed 'political prisoner' Lucy Connolly.

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Well you admitted guilt in court Lucy so are you lying now or were you lying then?
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Yeah so as an American living under an insane ridiculous authoritarian ignoramus, you guys need to stop this from getting more popular. It is hate speech and violence.
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If I said on my non existent twitter account that the so called cpac event should be fire bombed (for all I care), then I would expect this Connolly character to want me arrested and jailed.
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@Titus9508 From YouTube ↗ 18 Jul 2026 26
She admitted to it now claims otherwise, if only we could retrial blatant liars.
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The silly woman could have been the cause of nutters setting fire to the hostel. She's a nasty piece of work.
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Farage is in full trump mode now, everything he says is a lie.
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7:05 People were also " just upset" on November 9th 1938 Lucy.
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you have the right to free speech, you also have the responsibility and the duty to own the fallout from your hate speech
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Connelly seems to have forgotten what she actually said, if that wasn't inciting violence I dont know what is. Odious woman.
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Rare that of the two interviews Liz Truss comes off looking the more intelligent one.
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So according to Lucy Connolly, in Reform led Britain we'll be able to call for violence against anyone we want, as long as we add the suffix "for all I care"? Watertight reasoning as always....
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@31Blaize From YouTube ↗ 18 Jul 2026 42
Fear. CPAC and the people behind it are all about creating fear. Unfortunately so many fall for it.
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Clearly she hasn't learned a thing since prison

Aren't you supposed to demonstrate some kind of contrition to gain early release?
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And we pay Liz Truss a pension £150000 a year and this is what we get
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@yojimbo103 From YouTube ↗ 18 Jul 2026 48
The court found otherwise.
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@barbra7562 From YouTube ↗ 18 Jul 2026 43
If Lucy Connelly thought they wouldn’t have reached the threshold of guilt why didn’t she plead not guilty and fight her corner?
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Tickets from £500, to £10,000
I would not attend it even if it were for free.
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It's amazing that Ms Truss has the shameless audacity to stand up in public again. She should be confined to addressing the inhabitants of South Georgia.
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@anon-r2i From YouTube ↗ 18 Jul 2026 122
i've had library books out longer than liz truss was pm, ....and was more embarrassed when held to account...
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They're trying to import American oligarchy and plutocracy to this country through these sinister conferences. These are not forums to explore political and technical subjects in the pursuit of policy, but rather people to network and spread propaganda so they can inject populism and conspiracy theories into UK discourse. The whole thing is subversive to our democracy, and might as well involve a building full of Russians.
Truss is a foreign agent at this point in the way she behaves.
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Emma B 17 Jul 2026
Morning, June! It is a bit jarring, but maybe these challenging conversations are exactly what we need to find some common ground again.
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June from Daily Junction Host 17 Jul 2026
Good morning, everyone. Pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in. It's quite a jarring start to the day hearing these perspectives from CPAC GB. I'm curious, do you think labels like "political prisoner" are changing how we discuss law and politics? How are you all feeling this morning?