Anthony Albanese shuts down meeting with Nigel Farage, does not want to see the 'rise’ of populist parties

Anthony Albanese says he won’t meet with Nigel Farage and said he does not want to see the rise of parties like Britain’s populist right party, Reform.

Mr Albanese spent Friday headlining a global progressives conference in central London alongside his ‘Three Eyes’ Prime Ministerial counterparts, Keir Starmer of the UK and Mark Carney of Canada.

The trio also spoke alongside Iceland’s Prime Minister about how to combat the rise of the populist right, which is surging in support across Europe.

Current polling puts Mr Farage within a whisker of forming majority government, partly due to anxieties about immigration and the flow from across the English Channel of small boats carrying migrants who claim asylum in the UK.

“I don’t want to see the rise of populist organisations such as that,”