Britain’s New Right: Could Reform Replace The Tories? (Dr James Orr)

Ever since Labour won a landslide victory at the general
election, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party and Kemi Badenoch’s
Conservatives have been fighting for the soul of the political
right in Britain.


Now a new right-wing think tank is putting together a suite of
potential policies for a future Reform government.


Dr James Orr, an associate professor of the philosophy of
religion at Cambridge University and friend of US Vice President
JD Vance, chairs the advisory board of that new think tank - the
Centre for a Better Britain (CBB).


Amol asks him whether the CBB is modelled on American
organisations like the Heritage Foundation, which wrote a policy
wish list called ‘Project 2025’ that set out a vision for how
Donald Trump might govern during his second term in the White
House.


They also discuss who is funding the CBB, the politics of
national preference, and how James was radicalised by Brexit and
the culture wars.


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Amol Rajan is a presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.
He is also the host of University Challenge on BBC One. Before
that, Amol was media editor at the BBC and editor at The
Independent. Radical with Amol Rajan is a Today Podcast.


It was made by Lewis Vickers with Izzy Rowley. Digital production
was by Gabriel Purcell-Davis. Technical production was by Rohan
Madison. The editor is Sam Bonham. The executive producer is
Owenna Griffiths.