Intercessors For Britain

Intercessors For Britain We seek to stand in the gap for our nation & church, confessing its sins and crying to God for mercy. We all want a better nation!

We all long for a better government, a fairer and more just society, a more moral nation for our children to grow up in. But are we willing to do what God has called us, His people, to do? To humble ourselves
To pray
To seek His Face &
To turn from our wicked ways

If you want to see our Nation changed and the decline halted,
So do we! We are Intercessors For Britain
We seek to stand in the

gap for our Nation, to cry out for God's mercy on our land, and to ask for Him to act, to forgive our sin and heal our land. If you want to know more, check out our website
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The only hope for our Nation is our God, and He is asking If His people will Pray?

We praise God for news that a rogue NHS clinic for gender treatment in Brighton has been shut down following an investig...
11/06/2026

We praise God for news that a rogue NHS clinic for gender treatment in Brighton has been shut down following an investigation that found "care fell far short of what could be considered safe or appropriate”, and that "none of the clinicians whose care was considered in the investigation were professionally competent to initiate or assume responsibility for prescribing these medications."
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It is truly shocking to see clinics operating with impunity for long periods of time outside of rules and guidelines, working desperately to try and help vulnerable children, but damaging them and their families in the process. As this linked article makes clear, new prescriptions of puberty blockers are banned, and rules around cross-s*x hormones have been tightened with bans introduced for 16-17 year olds pending public consultation. The damage caused when these rules are flouted can be irreversible.
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The existence of such establishments should enrage every single one of us, and we must channel this into a heartcry for children in our communities wrestling with deep-seated feelings and questions, and for the carers, parents and professionals striving to help them. "Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift your hands toward Him for the life of your young children, who faint from hunger at the head of every street” (Lamentations 2v19).

A safety inquiry into the WellBN clinic in Brighton found 78 children were potentially harmed after being given gender medication without proper checks.

Sir Desmond Swayne MP, winner of this session's parliamentary ballot, has announced today that he is putting forward a p...
09/06/2026

Sir Desmond Swayne MP, winner of this session's parliamentary ballot, has announced today that he is putting forward a private members bill to the House of Commons focussed on the first 1001 days of a baby's life from conception to 2nd birthday. Business on the bill will likely commence after summer recess. We wait for full details, but Sir Desmond is partnering with the 1001 Critical Days Foundation, which you can read about via our link.

As many of us will know, in UK education the term 'early years' can mean either ages 3-5 (3-4 is 'pre-school', 4-5 is 'reception'), or collectively 0-5. Redefining the team 'early years' to include the unborn, and indeed placing a "duty on government to assess and provide for the needs of babies from pregnancy to age two", may help to move the focus of our attention further towards the unborn, and further expose the nonsense of personhood theory and the societal misconception that life only begins at birth.

Sir Desmond is actually an opponent of the parliamentary ballot system but entered to try and prevent pro-assisted su***de parliamentarians bringing similar legislation back this session through the ballot. Praise God for this opportunity to focus on children and their precious lives rather than the premature death of adults, and pray that all godly proposals in the eventual Infants, Parents and Carers Bill are well supported and protected from ungodly opposition!

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As you may have seen via channels such as CitizenGO (the authors of this linked article), the United Nations will soon b...
04/06/2026

As you may have seen via channels such as CitizenGO (the authors of this linked article), the United Nations will soon be appointing a new Secretary General. Various reports suggest the leading contender is a lady called Michelle Bachelet and should she be successful her track record as President of Chile certainly gives rise to concerns she might use her influence and authority to, amongst other things, further establish abortion as an international human right, promote radical gender ideology that denies biological reality, and prioritise curricula that expose children to inappropriate content in the classroom.
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We probably underestimate the extent to which globalist multi-national agencies such as the European Union and United Nations impact domestic policy here in the UK. The recent case of Matthew Grech has demonstrated how powerful trans-European attemps to outlaw 'conversion therapy' can dominate domestic proceedings in constituent nations such as Malta; we understand that Labour MPs from the UK have recently visited European counterparts to learn more on how they are seeking to implement bans in their own countries.
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Let's ask God to reveal to us what connected dangers and opportunities He wants us to be praying in to as we consider the disturbing impact our relations with other nations and federations can have on us and our children.

The battle over who will become the nex…

At the beginning of May Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said 300 extra police officers were needed acro...
01/06/2026

At the beginning of May Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said 300 extra police officers were needed across London as he warned of a growing “pandemic” of antisemitism in the UK. Choice of the word 'pandemic' was clearly deliberate, and does indeed help us set this unprecedented increase in anti-Semitic violence in some sort of perspective. As this very helpful linked article from Out of Zion Ministries states: 'This virulent hatred against the Jewish people and Israel has now gone wild. It will not decrease, only increase. It is reaching levels not seen since the Holocaust. It is a major alarm.'
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Pray that we the church respond more courageously to this global pandemic than we did the last one. So many are either silent or weak when it comes to supporting Jews, and we the church must by contrast be courageous with our voices and our hands, and be known as those who love God's chosen covenant people. As Trevor Phillips said in the opening monologue of his eponymous Sunday-morning Sky News show, Jewish families around dinner tables sometimes discuss who of their Gentile friends would have protected them from persecution a century ago, and who would have turned their backs. He went on to say 'the question being asked is..."will they hide me?"...a thousand years of history is bleak evidence that they are right to fear that when the knock on the door comes they will once again be on their own."
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The sheer scale of Jew-hatred in the UK is worth revisiting so as to appreciate how dangerous the UK has become for Jewish people. In May 2025 alone, we have seen:

- t-shirts displaying the inverted red triangle, a symbol used by Hamas to mark Israeli and Jewish targets in combst zones, sold outside the Ministry of Defence;
- a 46-year-old man and 38-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a Golders Green memorial wall;
- a suspected arson attack on an abandoned synagogue in Nelson Street, London;
- a 35-year-old man arrested on suspicion of aggravated criminal damage after rocks were allegeldy thrown at a Hatzola ambulance;
- the DSV building in Bristol vandalised for its alleged connection to Elbit Systems;
- the Chubb Insurance building in Birmingham vandalised on account of its connections with Elbit Systems;
- allegations of a vehicle targeting a group of Jewish students walking home from school in Hendon as they crossed a pedestrian crossing, mounting the kerb near them;
- a man arrested in Salford after allegedly threatening to 'take knives and cut your ******* throat" and "Jew leave the country, and we'll make it like the N***s in the gas chambers."
- the Barclays Bank AGM interrupted by pro-Palestinian protestors for 'bankrolling Israel's genocide in Gaza"
- a man in his 60s arrested on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence in Manchester;
- a male suspect on board a bus in Stamford Hill detained by police for allegedly shouting "shame Hi**er didn't kill you" and "you should all go to the gas chambers";
- two men in their 20s, Adam Bedoui and Abdelkader Amir Bousloub, plead guilty to religiously aggravated rharrassment after filming anti-Semitic TikTok videos in north London;
- a pro-Palestinian protester arrested in Brighton for refusing to take down posters with Hamas symbols;
- British school teachers at Connaught School for Girls wearing keffiyehs going on strike to protest for Palestine just days before GCSE exams;
- a male arrested in Hackney for assaulting multiple visibly-Orthodox Jewish females by whipping them with his belt, abusing them verbally and then spitting at a Shomrim volunteer;
- a female arrested for punching a visibly-Jewish schoolboy outside a Jewish boys school in Stamford Hill;
- an 11-year-old boy riding his bike after school pushed into a shop shutter by a girl who giggled to her friends as she walked away;
- twoJews egged on Shabbat in Stamford Hill, on their way home from synagogue, with the force of one throw knocking one man to the ground;
- attendees at the Nakba Day festival in London shout "death to Israel";
- a 22-year-old man named Shalev physically beaten by masked men in Golders Green around 2am while speaking Hebrew on the phone, tearing his clothes, dragging him across the road, throwing his shows away, and cursing him in Arabic;
- a young man arrested for being caught on video saying "Jews are gonna get beheaded one-by-one";
- 49-year-old man David Smith arrested for pulling over in his white Mercedes in Salford to wait for a red light at a pelican crossing so that he could then roar towards visibly-Jewish pedestrians who had started to cross and then had to run back to the safety of the pavement;
- a Jewish woman spot a urine-filled bottle on a wall in north London with a label bearing swastikas and the words "screw the Jew";
- pro-Palestinian marchers in Leeds openly call for intifada whilst being protected by police;
- protesters enter Black Sheep cafe in Glasgow to tell drinkers they are drinking "Palestinian blood" because the cafe is a "Zionist cafe that supports the genocide of Palestine";
- 25-year-old Daniel Nikzamir arrested for a random attack on Jewish people outside the Beis Gavriel synagogue in Hendon, punching one person in the face and shattering their glasses;
- Helen Mirren called an "evil Zionist b****" in the street for her support of Israel;
- a 19-year-old man arrested for an offensive gesture outside Borehamwood synagogue that was caught on CCTV;
- the British Museum postpone their Jewish Culture Month event citing security fears;
- a woman claiming to work at Stansted airport was captured on video shouting "free Palestine" and using racist slurs towards passengers departing a flight from Tel Aviv - children could be heard crying in the background;
- graffiti reading "kill Zionists" found in Hackney;
- a man pictured at Arsenal's open-top bus celebration in London wearing a t-shirt stating "all Zionists are racists" threatening a Jewish man with a child's scooter.
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We should be overwhelmed and grieved by such terror. At the same time, we thank Him that He alone can bring hope out of these horrors. When we as a church and a nation fail to love the Jewish people, as the linked article sets out, 'anti-Semitism acts like a threshing fork in the midst of the harvest for Aliyah'. It is a strident claim, but one backed up by biblical prophecy and further substantiated by a Times of Israel report on a major Aliyah fair in London that took place in May, which saw a record 1,200 Jews attend. We pray God helps them find a home, and that they see their Messiah there.

I wanted to share in this week’s update, a message I wrote for a Zoom teaching I did just before Shavuot. I felt it should go further than that platform, for the sake of prayer for Israel and Aliyah.

There's a hidden horror going on in our society and we are grateful to SPUC (Society for the Protection of Unborn Childr...
01/06/2026

There's a hidden horror going on in our society and we are grateful to SPUC (Society for the Protection of Unborn Children) for shining a light on it - their linked article from last year gives a good background. We are talking about the commodification of children into objects that can be designed and bought according to the whims and demands of their owners, an approach that is gaining momentum in the UK. We need to pray that this creeping progression is halted in its tracks.
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According to Coalition for Marriage and their analysis of last week's Times newspaper story: 'single British men are “buying babies” from women in poverty overseas.' Between 2019 and 2025, 130 single men applied for parental orders for babies born abroad, while 23 applied for babies born to surrogate mothers in the UK. It is reported that mothers carrying those babies born abroad often live in poverty and are attracted by the huge fees they can expect if they carry, bear and then give up a healthy child. Same-s*x couple Adam Frisby and Jamie Corbett from Bolton, Lancashire have a baby daughter through surrogacy and were featured on BBC News last month because they are currently campaigning to change UK legislation so that they can be legally recognised as the baby girl's legal parents, instead of the surrogate mother.
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Meanwhile in a separate development, The Spectator published a story last month on Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, the 57-year-old man responsible (in their words) 'for normalising gay male couples having babies via surrogacy...he is very keen on designer babies and last year it was revealed that he had paid a Miami model £50,000 to be the egg donor for his husband, Scott Hutchinson, 32, "to stop our baby being ugly."' The article goes on to explain that 'Scott used to be the boyfriend of his daughter Saffron, but the gay couple now also have children together..between them, they have a number of children born via surrogacy...both men have now been charged with human trafficking for s*xual exploitation, r**e, and s*xual assault.' They both strenuously deny the charges and await trial.
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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women called in October 2025 for a global abolitionist framework on surrogacy, labelling it “violence, exploitation and abuse”. Thirteen UK feminist organisations wrote to ministers in early 2025 demanding criminalisation of this terrifying and abusive industry. Libby Purves in The Times last month wrote that “a world which once shuddered at the idea that you could buy a baby off a total stranger has pretty much accepted it”. In response to these voices and others, Baroness Merron told the Law Commission in April 2025 that the Government is “unable to prioritise surrogacy reform”. Let's cry out to heaven for a change of heart and direction!

Last week, a UK court granted full parental rights to a couple in their seventies over a child born via surrogacy. Let that sink in – a newborn baby placed

This week marks something of a conclusion in a very long-running story in Scotland concerning the Scottish National Part...
27/05/2026

This week marks something of a conclusion in a very long-running story in Scotland concerning the Scottish National Party and their long-time leadership. Semi-satirical political commentary website Wings Over Scotland alleged serious financial misappropriation over six years ago, an allegation that publication of the SNP's 2019 accounts did little to contest. Financial wrongdoing at the highest level of the SNP has been something of an open secret in Scotland over recent years, but the confession and then arrest of their former Chief Executive Peter Murrell - also formerly husband to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon - confirms that £400,310.65 of donor money was embezzled on a lavish lifestyle that Judge Lord Young described as a "gross breach of trust".
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It is a grubby, grievesome story you can read the full details via the linked page, but this week's development is simply confirmation of what most already knew. Many questions remain unanswered, and it's possible that Mr Murrell's falling on his own sword is an attempt to deflect further questions in an investigation that has already reportedly cost the Scottish taxpayer £2.5m. What did the First Minister know of her husband's crooked expenditure? Was their relationship actually just a sad sham intended to prop up Sturgeon's office and her party's political fortune? Will loyal supporters who gave over their hard-earned cash ever receive it back? And where does this leave the broader independence movement in Scotland and its leading political party the SNP (who won 58 seats in this month's election, just 7 seats short of an outright majority).
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We have to be careful about how we react, don't we? For those of unionist persuasion, it can be easy to glory in the downfall of ideological opponents without grieving over the bigger picture. Sometimes we can become overly carnal, forgetting that there are indeed 'wings over Scotland' and that we need to pray from a heavenly perspective, remembering our weapons are "mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God" (2 Corinthians 4-5). There is a separate danger that we give up caring and praying altogther, such is our disdain and feeling of hopelessness!
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Without any doubt God has exposed what has been going on behind closed doors, and we should thank Him for that, and continue to pray that no-one escapes the scrutiny they deserve, so that we can grapple with the real depths of corruption in our state legislatures. Scotland and particularly its children are crying out for the protection of godly policy; perhaps something of that might arise from these ashes. Let's pray God reveals the strongholds over Scotland, its government, and its people. And more than anything else, we cry out for Christ to be exalted in Scotland, regardless of independence or of unity, and for His church to grow, in strength and in number!

So there it is. We did tell you so. There will be no trial, no cross-examination, no explanation. The people of Scotland, the members and supporters of the SNP, the wider Yes movement, none of us w…

There's so much filth to wade through in this linked article from Coalition for Marriage we nearly didn't post it, but w...
25/05/2026

There's so much filth to wade through in this linked article from Coalition for Marriage we nearly didn't post it, but we have to wrestle with the realities set before us and our children, and the spiritual strongholds of wickedness behind them, don't we? We've posted similar examples to those provided in the C4M article before, particularly related to the educational materials used in schools, but there are further news items and resources to explore here if you want to research further.
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You may have already heard about one particular item that the C4M article highlights: Labour MP Samantha Niblett's “summer of s*x” campaign. She is partnering with Cindy Gallop, who runs the po*******hy subscription platform MakeLoveNotPorn and a s*x-education site aimed, in Gallop’s own words on Spectator TV, at ages “0 to 18 and beyond”. As C4M state: 'Read that again. Zero to eighteen. S*x education for children in cots, built by the founder of a po*******hy platform with a sitting MP. Niblett intends to bring s*x toys into Parliament.'
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In addition to all this, today we learn via the Daily Telegraph that boys as young as 12 are now in romantic 'relationships' with online, virtual chatbots, behaviour that is negatively impacting their ability to form proper, respectful relationships in the real world.
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The C4M article ends with a call to action, and two specific practical steps we can all take. We would add a third, and it's actually the most important of all - pray as God leads you!

Last time I sat with Richard Lucas, leader of the Scottish Family Party, we went through Scotland’s new statutory guidance on what every child must be taught about s*x, relationships and identity, from the age of three. This time he showed me the actual classroom materials. I will not reproduce th...

When the House of Lords voted to allow the decriminalisation of abortion up to birth, many Christians were grieved, and ...
21/05/2026

When the House of Lords voted to allow the decriminalisation of abortion up to birth, many Christians were grieved, and rightly so. Further steps towards unfettered, industrialised and state-sanctioned shedding of innocent blood, blood that cries out to God from the ground every day, should shock us. Surely there is a need for the church in the UK to stop what it is doing for a season and really, truly, deeply and sincerely mourn as our Lord does. Surely the Lord wants to pour out more of the grief He feels into our hearts, that we might draw near to Him and repent. Perhaps the approaching sixtieth anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act is an opportunity to do just that.
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Events of the 19th of March this year certainly seemed to have pricked many consciences across the nation, and not just inside the church. Outside of the church there has been substantial reaction from the nominally religious, from atheists, from agnostics and beyond. Many have expressed a certain moral outrage at the nation's descent into callous child sacrifice, and perhaps in this united outpouring of frustration and sadnes lies an opportunity for a united, righteous backlash.
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There are certainly fresh shoots of encouragement. Right now there are eight formal pro-life petitions lodged with the government. A church pastor we spoke to recently told us that, having tried to gain traction within their church on the abortion issue over many years, it was only now, post-decriminalisation, that they had gained a hearing. The pro-life Private Members' Bills selected for debate in the House of Lords at the start of the current government's second parliamentary session, described in the linked news item from CARE, are also a sign of renewed momentum in the pro-life movement.
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Let's praise God for these developments, and pray that they succeed. And let's pray more broadly for the pro-life movement. There is a need for unity, energy, divine providence, and spiritual power!

Two pro-life Bills – one on complications from abortions, and another on infants born alive – have been selected for debate in the House of Lords in the new Parliamentary session.

The 'Unite the Kingdom' rally took place in London on 16th May and was attended by thousands of people who wanted to com...
18/05/2026

The 'Unite the Kingdom' rally took place in London on 16th May and was attended by thousands of people who wanted to come together and demonstrate how proud they are of Great Britain. By many accounts the event and march were overwhelmingly peaceful, with the Metropolitan Police afterwards confirming 22 arrests of individuals identified as being part of the event. Taking place at the same time was a pro-Palestinian 'Nakba' event; according to Sky News 11 people participating in that march were arrested. At the latter event many participants were captured on video calling for the death of Unite the Kingdom leader Tommy Robinson (they chanted "shoot him in the neck like Charlie Kirk"), and the destruction of the entire nation of Israel.
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At the Unite the Kingdom event, Tommy Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) took the main stage and, amongst a variety of other segments and contributors, gave 5 minutes to Rt Revd Jwan B. N. Zhumbes, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Bukuru in Nigeria. Robinson's desire was to highlight the persecution of Christians in other parts of the world, challenging what he perceives to be silence often offered by institutions like the BBC, Church of England and Catholic Church regarding the matter. You can hear exactly what Robinson and Bishop Zhumbes had to say in this linked video, but it is perhaps the latter's closing comments that resonate most deeply.
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"If you do not stand with the rest of the persecuted church, I want to assure you friends that what is happening to us is not static. It's migrating. The truth of the gospel has made you who you are today. You dare not abandon the gospel. You need the gospel. The gospel has become part of your culture. It's ingrained in you. No-one should come and rob you of that culture. It gives you all of the privileges you today enjoy. So please, it's my desire, my prayer, that you hold on to that gospel. Never let it go. May Christ reign in your life. May Christ reign in England. May Christ reign in every single community in England."
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It is a glorious thing to hear such a prophetic voice spoken boldly and loudly in the streets of our capital to thousands and thousands of people. It is an echo of similar prophetic challenges laid down before the UK church by our Nigerian brothers and sisters over many years. But that voice has perhaps never been heard in such a setting, and certainly not at such a febrile hour. May God give our streets and our pews ears to hear it, and respond earnestly, before it is too late!

Tommy Robinson addressed the persecution of Christians in Nigeria during the “Unite The Kingdom” rally in central London before welcoming a Nigerian Anglican...

From an earthly perspective, it's been quite a week in British politics!--- Plaid Cymru (a nationalist party) has gained...
15/05/2026

From an earthly perspective, it's been quite a week in British politics!

--- Plaid Cymru (a nationalist party) has gained power in Wales for the first time. ---

--- The Scottish National Party has retained power in Scotland to extend its 19-year reign, while a record number of MSPs stood down. ---

--- Reform UK have become the second largest party in both Wales and Scotland, and won over a thousand seats in English local councils. ---

--- The Green Party also grew significantly, after focusing its campaigning on a conflict hundreds of miles away in Gaza. ---

--- Two-party politics in England seems to have evaporated, with a fragmented electorate, a record number of local councils now under no overall control, and a hung parliament now a real possibility at the next general election. ---

--- The King's Speech went ahead as if the government is still in full control, with planned measures for this year including a closer relationship with the EU and a draft conversion therapy ban. ---

--- But the government isn't in full control, because after lots of rumours and plots, a leadership challenge against the prime minister now seems to be looming. ---

--- When not focusing on President Trump's and President Xi's balancing act over in China, the international media has noted the obvious turmoil and chaos in British politics this week. ---

But what's going on in the heavenly places, far above the realm of voters and politicians? Should we be interested in that? In the talk linked to this post, we look at a passage from Scripture to explore those questions a little further.

Ashley draws out some lessons from Daniel 10 and 11 at the end of a "crazy" week in British politics, looking at distractions, angels and a heart set on unde...

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