Katie Hopkins to speak at far-right rally with Holocaust denier

Katie Hopkins is due to address an extreme rightwing party on Sunday alongside speakers that include a Holocaust denier and a controversial US anti-Muslim campaigner who is banned from entering the UK.

The former reality-TV star is due to appear at the conference of For Britain, a party founded by the former Ukip leadership contender and anti-Muslim activist Anne Marie Waters.

Hopkins, who has promoted her appearance as “standing up for Britain”, is joined by guest speakers who include Ingrid Carlqvist, a Swedish anti-Muslim writer who has engaged in Holocaust denial, and the well-known Islamophobe Robert Spencer, who will address the audience via a video link after being barred from entering the UK by the Home Office in 2013.

Hopkins is also set to speak at the annual conference of the far-right Traditional Britain Group (TBG) in October. The TBG is a party run by the former Tory fringe figure Gregory Lauder-Frost, who has talked of deporting people who are not white to their “natural homelands”. The TBG has promoted its speakers as “guaranteeing a rousing and stimulating conference, filled with great insights from first-class people”.

According to leaked documents obtained by the anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate, internal polling of For Britain’s members reveals that nearly half support a ban on people coming to the UK from Pakistan, Bangladesh or Somalia.

Hopkins, who recently applied for an insolvency agreement to avoid bankruptcy after a costly libel case involving the food writer Jack Monroe, works for Rebel Media, the Canadian far-right firm that has employed the former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson.

Robinson, currently courted by Ukip leader Gerard Batten, will appear in court for the retrial of a contempt of court charge on Thursday.