Britain’s governing Labour Party has criticized Nigel Farage, leader of the right-wing populist Reform U.K. party, over an appearance in the American Congress that was brokered by an influential U.S. anti-abortion group.

The New York Times reported last week that the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian organization that helped end the constitutional right to abortion in the United States, had arranged Mr. Farage’s testimony in Washington in September. He used it to attack Britain’s free-speech rules.

It was one of several meetings and briefings that the alliance’s British arm helped arrange between influential U.S. officials and Mr. Farage this year, according to messages and officials with knowledge of events.

In a statement on Wednesday, the Labour Party said, “Reports that Nigel Farage’s appearance in the U.S. Congress was arranged by a group behind America’s abortion rollback are deeply concerning.”

It added, “This comes in the same month as Reform has hired James Orr as a senior adviser — a man who opposes abortion in every circumstance, even after rape.”

Mr. Farage announced the appointment of Dr. Orr, a right-wing Christian theologian at the University of Cambridge, in an interview in The Telegraph on Sunday. Dr. Orr is a close ally of Vice President JD Vance and has hosted him at his Cambridgeshire home. Dr. Orr has previously claimed Britain had “one of the most extreme abortion regimes in the world.”

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