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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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David Batty

Office for Students chair speaks at same event as denounced racist

James Wharton
James Wharton said Cpac was a great chance to ‘reconnect with friends across the world’ and to ‘fight for the values that we all hold dear’. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Ministers are facing calls to investigate the chair of England’s university regulator about his participation in a conference for the Republican party, which platformed a notorious racist and antisemite.

Labour and the Liberal Democrats called on Conservative party leaders and ministers to take action after James Wharton, chair of the Office for Students (OfS), addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference (Cpac) Hungary in Budapest on Friday.

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