Fears expressed about the role of Christian Nationalism in the UK
November 2026
In the recent edition of Humanist News (November 2026), fears were expressed about the increasing role of Christian Nationalism in the United Kingdom. To some extent this is an American import and there are reports of significant funding being made available from the US to further these ideas.
Article 18 of the Universal Declaration says ‘Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion‘. The problem is when this form of Christianity becomes an element of political philosophy which it appears to have become with the Reform party. A leading proponent of this policy is the local MP, Danny Kruger (Reform, East Wiltshire) who has spoken and written on this topic.
When Danny Kruger spoke to a largely empty House of Commons earlier this year, he gave voice to something rarely heard in Britain’s legislature which was a call for politics explicitly rooted in Christian conviction. “We are a Christian country, or we were,” he told MPs, “and we need to recover the sense that our values are not arbitrary but are grounded in the eternal truths of the Christian faith.” Mr Kruger was reported to have received a substantial sum of £55,000 from a Christian organisation to oppose assisted dying which was being voted on in parliament. In his letter to constituents this week, he makes no mention of this issue.
The Reform Party and its Education spokesman, Suella Braverman, is proposing that Christian worship will be compulsory in schools. They would be required to sing Christian hymns and the national anthem. This overlooks that fewer than half the population identify as Christian and many other faiths exist as well who are unlikely to want to sing such hymns. There are also those with no faith.
Other worrying aspects to this form of nationalism is how it is being used to support violent protest. For example at Portsmouth and Dover, balaclava wearing crowds chanted ‘Christ is King’. It is also being used by protestors such as Tommy Robinson in his various demonstrations.
In America, this form of nationalism is more extreme and they are promoting the idea that to be a true American you have to be a Christian. Some of their sites proclaim ‘God has called on Christians to exercise dominion over all areas of society’. With funds and support, the worry is that this form of extremism will become rooted in our society.
Sources: Humanist News, Evangelical Alliance, Kettering News, Guardian, iSideWith, Left Foot Forward, London Daily Archive, The Reform Party.
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