Attendees at this weekend’s Homeland Party conference will be addressed by speakers from the German AfD and a Polish party which is closely allied to it.

Homeland is meeting in Derbyshire, at the Town Hall in Wirksworth which seems to have been booked under a pretext, and domestic speakers include Pete North and Steve Laws. North is an ex-UKIP online influencer who posts as ‘Northern Variant’. Laws is one of the most virulent online racist agitators, lucky to escape legally unscathed after the August riots.

First foreign speaker up is Manuel Schreiber from the youth wing of AfD. He will be joined by Robert Grajny, international relations officer of Konfederacja, a Polish far right party allied to AfD.

Getting these two to speak is a bit of a coup for Homeland and its leader Kenny Smith, and throws down a challenge to Mark Collett and Patriotic Alterntive who are struggling to get high profile speakers for their own forthcoming conference.