Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali will address UKIP conference
by Harry Farley, Christian Today:
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester, will address the UKIP party conference as a keynote guest speaker this week.
Well-known in the church as a campaigner for traditionalist marriage, Bishop Michael will speak on the main stage of the party’s conference in Torquay on Friday afternoon, shortly before the new leader is announced.
In the same session a ‘senior member’ of the AfD – the German far-right anti-immigrant and anti-Islam political group – will also address UKIP.
Bishop Michael, who was the first Asian-born bishop in the Church of England, told Christian Today he would be speaking about ‘Judaeo-Christian values as a basis for national life and how that can be a basis for an open society’.
Justifying his presence he said: ‘I go to different party conferences. I have been at Labour’s, I have been at the Conservatives many times.’
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