Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage has tapped a New Right intellectual with ties to President Donald Trump’s administration as his party’s new head of policy.

James Orr, an English theologian and philosopher whom U.S. Vice President JD Vance has described as his “British sherpa,” will lead Reform U.K.’s policy-crafting as it hopes to ride its current wave of popularity into the May 7 elections.