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What Reform UK’s senior figures really think about women and families

As Reform UK surges in the polls and attempts to get its top team ready to fight an election, The Independent has taken a look at exactly what key figures in the party have said about marriage, women, abortion and fertility – and what it might mean for policy

The Independent UK

Labour take note: the politics of home cannot be ceded to the nativist right

Reform’s version of patriotism is opportunistic and bogus, but it is swaying voters. Labour must look to its roots to find a reply, says Guardian associate editor Julian Coman

The Guardian - UK

Reform UK enlists Boris Johnson ally to write party nature policies

Exclusive: Ben Goldsmith will work on issues including fishing and green belt preservation to attract green Tories

The Guardian - UK

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Faith and Reform: is the religious right on the rise in UK politics?

Powerful Christian figures are emerging in Britain but there are important differences from the US, where evangelicals have fuelled Trump

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Who is the real James Orr? JD Vance’s ‘British sherpa’ and Reform’s ‘posh-bosh’ charmer

It is hard to miss James Orr — with his slicked-back mane of blond hair, booming voice and all the confidence of a Wykehamist and an Oxford Balliol graduate, he could easily play the quintessential stage Englishman in a stage adaptation of Agatha Christie. A hybrid of academic and ideologue,…

Evening Standard

Is British politics immune to US-style rightwing Christianity? We’re about to find out

Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson are increasingly espousing Christian ‘values’, and a wealthy US legal group is becoming influential – this could have dire consequences, says author Lamorna Ash

The Guardian - UK

‘America is British’. Heaven is ‘a socialist state’. David Attenborough is ‘anti-human’ – the startling theories of Reform MP Danny Kruger

He was a Conservative party big-hitter who wrote speeches for David Cameron and worked with Boris Johnson before he suddenly jumped ship. He talks family, flags and why Nigel Farage is ‘top dog’

The Guardian - UK

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Stormont declared ‘crime scene’ over environmental crisis at Lough Neagh

The symbolic arrest of an ‘MLA’ was also staged at the front of Parliament Buildings in Belfast by environmental activists.

Evening Standard

How the cracks are beginning to show in Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

NEWS ANALYSIS: Reform UK appears to have an impregnable lead in the polls, but political editor David Maddox highlights how the cracks are beginning to show in the councils the party runs and the ongoing policy vacuum

The Independent UK

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

Professor James Orr is understood to be close to JD Vance and influential in Donald Trump’s administration with his right-wing views on abortion and immigration

The Independent UK

Academic influential within Trump administration joins Reform UK as adviser

Cambridge University’s James Orr was described as ‘a brilliant academic, theologian, thinker’ by Reform’s head of policy Zia Yusuf.

Evening Standard

Northern Ireland ‘dirty corner of Europe’ due to lack of governance, say experts

Campaigners say keeping higher EU standards post-Brexit will have little impact as existing rules are already being flouted

The Guardian - UK

Crosta & Mollica entrepreneur takes the biscuit

James Orr's first job importing Italian peaches inspired his fast-growing snack brand, Crosta & Mollica

Evening Standard

Viktor Orbán-influenced university plans outpost in London

Exclusive: Branch will be part of attempts to spread Hungarian leader’s populist philosophy across Europe

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Stormont environment probe scrapped as department to be reviewed cuts watchdog funds

"It is very convenient for DAERA to withdraw funding from the body that was investigating DAERA"

The Independent UK

Bible verse, conspiracies and the ‘cult of trans’: The ultra-conservative Americans infiltrating the Tory party

The National Conservatism Conference, which starred Suella Braverman and Michael Gove this week, was disowned by the Tories only three years ago, Lizzie Dearden writes

The Independent UK

‘Rainbow activists’ showing children ‘graphic’ material, says Cambridge academic

James Orr, organiser of the National Conservatism conference, claimed children were being shown ‘graphic’ material as part of sex education.

The Guardian - UK

Northern Ireland turning Republic into a ‘toilet’ for excess manure pollution

Officials investigate irregularities in poultry and pig waste exports to Ireland, as ammonia risks turning soil into a ‘wasteland’

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Former Dundee United star becomes Cumbernauld Colts boss with ex-Hibs and Tannadice ace as assistant

The 37-year-old will be their new boss heading into the 2022/23 Lowland League season.

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