Project 2025 Coming to the UK

Project 2025 coming to the UK

Reform UK has increasingly aligned itself with America’s hard-right Project 2025 agenda. 

Nigel Farage’s January 2025 trip to Trump’s inauguration quietly marked the start of a trans-Atlantic political project linking Reform UK to America’s hard-right agenda. Standing beside Farage was Zachary Freeman, a Washington lobbyist tied to the Heritage Foundation. Freeman is the driving force behind “Project 2029,” an effort to import the Heritage Foundation’s radical Project 2025 agenda into the UK through Reform UK.

Project 2025 is a sweeping US plan to dismantle federal agencies, scrap climate protections, remove abortion rights, and replace civil servants with ideological loyalists. Freeman has been connecting Farage’s circle to this network. 

Weeks after Nigel Farage met US operatives Zachary Freeman and Liberty University’s Dave Brat, James Orr, the Cambridge theologian who heads Reform’s think-tank, the Centre for a Better Britain, publicly praised the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 on BBC Radio 4. Orr endorsed scrapping Net Zero, rolling back the Equality Act, and centralising executive power, positions that closely echo the US blueprint. By late October, he was appointed a senior adviser to Farage.

The connections reveal a coordinated trans-Atlantic lobbying effort linking Project 2025 to Reform UK. Veteran GOP strategist Rick Wilson warned that MAGA-style extremism is being actively exported, with Britain now a prime target.