Pauline Hanson tells London CPAC crowd she is ‘sick of hearing about white privilege’ and ‘fears for England’

The Australian senator and One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, listens to a speech by Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, on the second day of the inaugural CPAC Great Britain summit in London. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images View image in fullscreen The Australian senator and One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, listens to a speech by Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, on the second day of the inaugural CPAC Great Britain summit in London. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images Pauline Hanson tells London CPAC crowd she is ‘sick of hearing about white privilege’ and ‘fears for England’ Reform UK leader Nigel Farage compares One Nation leader’s polling rise to Donald Trump’s victory in the US Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Pauline Hanson has told a political conference in London that Australia is following Britain down a path of cultural decline, blaming mass immigration, multiculturalism, Islam, net zero policies and “woke” ideology such as support for trans rights. The One Nation leader has been in the UK to speak at the inaugural British spin-off from America’s influential Conservative Political Action Conference, alongside Nigel Farage and Liz Truss, the former British prime minister. On Saturday she made a speech which was livestreamed on YouTube, telling the CPAC audience that while England is a beautiful country, London was not for her. “I went to Tower Hamlets [a multicultural area in east London] just last week. Well, wasn’t that a rude awakening to me. I felt I was in another country. I didn’t believe this was England,” she said. She later added: “London? No, thank you. That’s my opinion … I see this happening too in some parts of Australia … I fear for England, I really do. You were the crystal ball for me to come over here and see what’s happened here. I believe we’re about five to 10 years behind England.” Towards the end of the speech, she told attendees: “Do not apologise for being white. I’m sick of hearing about white privilege. We are all human beings. We must learn from the mistakes of the past, but we don’t repeat that in reverse now, and I see that happening.” Hanson also addressed a conference dinner on Friday (Saturday AEST) with media reportedly barred from attending. According to leaked audio of her speech reported by the Nine papers, she told attendees that “immigration is destroying our country as it has destroyed yours”. Farage, the leader of Reform UK, in his address on Friday compared Hanson’s polling rise to Donald Trump’s victory in the US. “This political revolution of course has happened in America,” Farage said. “It’s happening in Australia as we speak. Pauline: amazing. Amazing what you’ve done to get to the top of the opinion polls.” Elsewhere, Hanson denied rumours of a rift with One Nation recruit Barnaby Joyce over her European tour and podcast with the far-right British activist Tommy Robinson . The One Nation leader also denied bi