“As senior adviser to Nigel Farage, I have seen up close just how determined he and Reform are to fix broken Britain,” Orr said in a statement.
“Working alongside [Reform UK MP] Danny Kruger in his role as Head of PrepGov, I will help to build the most serious policy operation in British politics — and give our shadow Cabinet the support they will need to govern,” Orr added.
Vance camaraderie
Orr was among a handful of senior U.K. political figures who met Vance when he visited the U.K. last summer.
David Lammy, the U.K. foreign secretary at the time, and Robert Jenrick, now Farage’s shadow chancellor, who was then a Conservative Party politician, also met Vance during his trip.
In an interview in 2024 Orr claimed to have a “kind of camaraderie” with the now U.S. vice president in “trying to work out what the new right should look like in the 21st century.” He first met Vance, who he describes as a “mentor,” in 2019.
Orr defended Vance’s provocative comments about “childless cat ladies” before the 2024 presidential election, telling POLITICO’s Power Play podcast the then vice presidential candidate saw himself as an anti-establishment figure, meaning he “can’t play nicely.”