Nigel Farage has accepted more than £83,000 in earnings, accommodation and flights from groups or events that support the US anti-abortion movement , The i Paper can reveal.
Farage has previously described himself as pro-choice but has called for a reduction in the legal time limit for abortions, while his pick for the Makerfield by-election, Robert Kenyon, has faced scrutiny over historic comments on the issue.
Reform UK says it has no plans to change abortion laws in the UK, but the payments have raised concerns about American anti-abortion groups’ access to a party with rising influence over British politics.
All of the payments were declared by Farage in Parliament’s Register of Members’ Financial Interests – a public record MPs are legally required to keep up to date. It is designed to give voters transparency about paid work, donations, hospitality, property interests and travel funded by third parties that sit alongside MPs’ parliamentary roles.
Political debate around abortion rights has intensified since the controversial overturning of Roe v Wade by the US Supreme Court in 2022.
