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.
In the UK, abortion is legal up to 24 weeks of pregnancy with the approval of two doctors, and later in limited circumstances, such as risk to the woman’s life. Last year, British MPs voted to change criminal laws that govern abortion in England and Wales so that women who procure an abortion outside of the legal framework cannot be prosecuted.
The groups that Farage has accepted payments from are predominantly US conservative or Christian organisations that support efforts to restrict or ban abortion access.
Farage earned more than £25,000 in 2024 for a speaking engagement with the AZ Liberty Network, a coalition that includes anti-abortion groups based in the US state of Arizona, where abortion is legal, according to the register of MPs’ financial interests.
This included £13,000 for a speech last August at the Keep Arizona Free Summit in which he reportedly told American lobby groups they were “saving western civilisation”. Among those present were members of Red State Reform, which has called abortion “the highest crime being committed today”.
The Reform leader was also paid £44,300 for a speech in March to the Club for Growth, whose political action committee has financially supported US anti-abortion candidates running for office.
The group also spent £9,500 on his flights and accommodation in Palm Beach, Florida.
He accepted £4,360 in flights and hotels from the New York Young Republicans Club, which has supported legislation to restrict abortions in New York, where the procedure is legal.
At a gala dinner in December 2024, Farage was given the John Foster Dulles award, which is given by the club each year to “an individual that best embodies the anti-Communist spirit” of Dulles, a Cold War era Republican politician.
Farage accepted accommodation worth £280 from the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of US conservatives where he delivered a speech in February 2025.
On its website, the organisation says it “considers every abortion a human tragedy” and it has invited several pro-life speakers in recent years. Eduardo Verástegui, a Mexican actor and president of CPAC Mexico, said in his speech last year: “They tell us abortion is a right when in truth it is the greatest genocide of our time”. He also said he would not rest until “we eradicate human trafficking, child trafficking, and abortion”.
JD Vance also touched on the issue at the 2025 conference, saying “[people need to] stop thinking about babies as inconveniences to be discarded”.
Heidi Stewart, chief executive of the abortion charity the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, which provides terminations for the NHS, said it was “concerning” to see American anti-abortion organisations appearing to seek links to British politicians because of the “rollback of reproductive rights” in the US.
Influential US Christian group’s ties to Farage
Farage’s testimony before the US Congress in September 2025, in which he criticised the UK’s free speech rules, was reportedly orchestrated by the Alliance Defending Freedom – one of America’s most influential Christian groups that played a key role in ending the constitutional right to abortion.
The ADF’s British arm reached out to Farage asking if he would like to give evidence on censorship and passed his interest to the House Judiciary Committee, which formally invited him, according to Reform and ADF insiders who spoke to the New York Times.
They were said to have brokered a secret meeting between Farage and top State Department officials in London.
The ADF has given legal support to people in the UK who have been prosecuted for protesting outside abortion clinics, breaching “buffer zones” in place.
An ADF spokesperson said Farage was invited by the committee and that the clients it has supported were not protesting in the buffer zones, but “either silently praying or offering consensual conversation”.
He said: “Their criminal prosecutions for peaceful expression, which is protected under national and international law, are some of the most egregious examples of censorship in the UK today.”
Key Reform figures have been critical of existing abortion rights in the UK.
Robert Kenyon has been under close scrutiny since he was selected as the Reform candidate for the Makerfield by-election on 18 June (Photo: Reform UK)The i Paper revealed that Makerfield candidate Kenyon once said women get abortions for “vanity purposes” and use them as a “secondary form of contraception”, describing the medical procedures as the “legalised killing of babies”.
When Kenyon’s comments were put to Reform, a spokesman said abortion was a matter of conscience and that his comments were made before he was elected as a councillor in the 7 May local elections.
Reform UK MP Suella Braverman, the former Conservative home secretary who defected to Reform at the start of this year, has said the party would reverse legislation that decriminalised abortion, meaning women could face prosecution for ending their pregnancies in certain situations.
Changes that took effect in April mean that women in the UK will no longer be subject to the Victorian-era Offences Against the Person Act, which saw them face lengthy and distressing investigations, criminal charges, or custodial sentences if a termination took place outside of strict parameters.
Reform deputy leader Richard Tice has described decriminalisation as “abortion carnage”, while Reform’s London mayoral candidate Laila Cunningham has accused the UK government of treating “the ending of life as a policy solution”.
Farage appointed anti-abortion academic and chair of the Edmund Burke Foundation, James Orr, to be Reform’s policy lead in February.
The foundation organises the anti-abortion National Conservatism Conference, where Farage has been a speaker twice.
‘US anti-abortion groups exporting playbook to UK’
Stewart said: “We are increasingly seeing well-funded anti-abortion organisations, many with links to the United States, seeking to influence debate and policy in the UK.
“That is concerning, particularly given the aggressive rollback of reproductive rights we have witnessed in parts of the US in recent years.”
Louise McCudden, head of advocacy and communications at MSI Reproductive Choices’ UK, said anti-abortion groups “will keep trying to find new ways to export their playbook to Britain, but politicians here should know that these groups’ views are wildly out of step with public opinion”.
YouGov polling for the group, which provides contraception and abortions to women and girls in 37 countries, has found that 86 per cent of Reform UK voters support the right to abortion.
A Reform UK spokesperson said: “We don’t have plans to change the abortion laws in the UK.”
Nigel Farage and the other groups he accepted contributions from were approached for comment.
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