Controversial rightwing figures spoke alongside Liz Truss at CPAC event

From left at the CPAC roundtable event, Liz Truss, Nigel Farage, who addressed the conference before her, Szabolcs Takács and Miklós Szánthó – both allies of Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán. Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP

Liz Truss made her remarks about having been hobbled by transgender and environmental activists in the civil service at a US event also attended by controversial rightwing figures, it has emerged.

The former prime minister was criticised over the weekend when she told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland she had been thwarted during her 45-day term in office by a small cabal within Whitehall.