Nigel Farage appoints right-wing anti-abortion theologian as Reform senior adviser

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Professor James Orr is understood to be close to J. D. Vance and influential in Donald Trump’s administration with his rightwing views on abortion and immigration

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Reform has been accused of “importing divisive and dangerous ideas” from MAGA politics in the US after a right-wing theologian who opposes abortion in all cases joined the party as Nigel Farage’s adviser.