Charlie Kirk’s status as a martyr was sealed at his packed memorial on Sunday evening, when an estimated 100,000 people showed up to honour him. He had meetings arranged with the Turning Point team and was pushing for a podcast appearance with Kirk himself. ‘Charlie would have been a massive fan of Raise the Colours,’ says Jack Ross, CEO of Turning Point UK. Charlie Kirk debates with students at the Cambridge Union (Getty Images)The Kirk assassination has produced two very intense and dissonant streams of thought in western conservative politics. Isabel Brown was a Turning Point chapter president at Colorado State University and a close friend of Kirk.