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On Thursday 11th December Reform launched a Christian Fellowship (Labour, LibDems & Tories have one) at St Michaels Church, Cornhill in the City of London. Reform MP Sarah Pochin, Anne Widdecombe and Tim Montgomerie were among the Reform operatives in attendance.

St Michael’s is one of a group of churches who style themselves as ‘conservative’ and do not agree with the ordination of women.

The setting could not have been more appropriate, as St Michaels is referenced (by description) in Charles Dickens Christmas Carol and Scrooge’s Counting House was situated immediately opposite in Newman’s Ct.

The sermon claimed Jesus was a victim of cancel culture

The Reform party has launched a Christian Fellowship with a carol service at St Michael’s Church Cornhill, in the city of London, a church which is a member of the Prayer Book Society. Sarah Pochin MP, Tim Montgomerie and Ann Widdecombe were among members who read lessons. Tim Montgomerie, who co-founded the Conservative Christian Fellowship, is said to be about to become the honorary president of the Reform Christian Fellowship. In the sermon, the Rev Henry Eatock-Taylor wove cancel culture into the nativity story, painting a picture of a “cancelled” Christmas, a “decaffeinated, coffee-flavoured, oat milk version of the nativity”, with fewer male speaking roles, the gift of gold regarded as colonial inequality, myrrh ethically sourced, and the stable as an eco-dome. But he said the Christmas story showed that the God of the Bible could not be more different. To the members of the new Christian Fellowship, he said: “These weeks should be a time of great celebration for us. The arrival of one who got cancelled for mixing with certain people. One who came that God and sinners may be reconciled. One who came not to cancel humanity, but to be cancelled in our place.”

Nigel Farage does not appear to have been present. No doubt, familiar with the area as he is, he was in a nearby hostelry, likely the newly reopened Simpsons in Ball Ct..