Three veteran backbenchers pictured at recent event in Budapest with other members of rightwing grouping

Three Conservative MPs have been condemned after attending a conference hosted by the populist Hungarian leader, Viktor Orbán, along with representatives from a series of hard right and far-right European parties.

Veteran backbenchers Sir Edward Leigh, Sir Christopher Chope and Ian Liddell-Grainger were pictured in Budapest alongside Orbán and members of other populist or far-right parties including Belgium’s Vlaams Belang, Spain’s Vox and the Sweden Democrats.

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