Michael Heseltine to give keynote address at anti-Brexit conference in Leeds

Michael Heseltine will be appearing in Leeds next month

Former Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine is to give the keynote address at a conference in Leeds organised by campaigners calling for a new Brexit referendum and for the UK to remain in the European Union.

The peer will appear at The Great Northern Stop Brexit Conference at The Met Hotel on September 7 alongside speakers such as Leeds MP Hilary Benn, Liberal Democrat MEP Shaffaq Mohammed and former Green Party leader Natalie Bennett.

Topics to be discussed at the conference which is organised by volunteers from the group Leeds for Europe, include climate change, populism and the far right, the threat posed to democracy by new technology and closing the generation gap.

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