Tens of thousands of mourners dressed in red, white and blue have turned out to honour Charlie Kirk at a memorial service in Arizona, where his fellow conservatives praised him as an inspirational Christian leader and vowed to carry on with the political movement he started.

President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and several cabinet members were scheduled to pay tribute to the charismatic Kirk 11 days after he was assassinated during a campus event in Utah.

The memorial, organised by Kirk's conservative youth advocacy organisation Turning Point USA, had the feel of a religious revival mixed with a "Make America Great Again" political rally.

Stephen Miller, the powerful White House adviser, vowed to use Kirk's death as a galvanising force to finish the work he began.

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