Lord Pickles condemns fellow Tory Daniel Kawczynski in dramatic intervention over far-right conference

"Unfortunately, his presence has only brought them comfort. He has let fellow Conservatives down."

It comes after the JC reported a senior Cabinet minister was "hopeful" their party would act against Mr Kawzynski and a JC leader said: "If Boris Johnson is sincere in his opposition to racism, he will discipline Mr Kawczynski. If he does not, he is not."

"By consorting with racists, in full knowledge of their presence, he sends a clear message that he believes their ideas are legitimate and respectable," the JC leader said.

Before he went to the conference, which took place on Monday and Tuesday in Rome, Mr Kawczynski accused his critics of being "hysterical".

He added he would attend to “share an Anglo-Polish perspective on Brexit and what it signifies for the future of Europe.

“But more than anything, I will seek to echo the wisdom of the late Sir Roger Scruton, who warned us not to accept the EU’s propaganda version of events that the fall of the Berlin Wall was only about ‘freedom of movement’.

"This is not true. The revolutions of 1989 were about the restoration of national sovereignty to people who had been absorbed and oppressed by a lawless empire.

"The fact that they are now absorbed by a lawful one does not alter the case."