How Lowe Will He Go? Rupert Lowe is Britain’s most extreme MP

With Reform UK currently topping the polls, it’s hard to turn on the radio or open a newspaper without hearing or reading an interview with Nigel Farage. However, in recent days, it’s his former colleague Rupert Lowe who has been making headlines with the launch of his own political vehicle. 

Restore Britain claims not to be a party but rather a ‘movement’ aiming to “carpet-bomb wokery,” and it already appears to have attracted the support of the world’s least popular billionaire, Elon Musk.

Lowe won the seat of Great Yarmouth for Reform UK at last year’s General Election but was soon axed from the party after a spectacular falling out with Farage. Having described Reform as “a protest party led by the Messiah” in the Daily Mail, a clash with Farage was inevitable and there was only ever going to be one winner.

Always a hardline figure, Lowe has since shifted even further to the right following the spat and is now, by some distance, the most extreme MP in parliament.

Witch Hunts and Falling Outs

Lowe’s parliamentary career caused concern from the off. Just days after his victory he ominously tweeted:

“I have gathered a list of schools (including primary level) in my constituency where teachers were allegedly pushing their own aggressive personal views about Reform on young children.

“I will be following up with each and every headteacher, making it abundantly clear that their responsibility to the children does NOT include forcing political opinions on impressionable young boys and girls.”

The tweets rightly raised fears of a “witch hunt” and unacceptable political interference in local schools. From then on it was clear that Lowe wasn’t to be a normal MP and was willing to cross lines that others would not.

It wasn’t long before Lowe began to mark himself out as even more extreme than his fellow Reform MPs. When Elon Musk began vocally supporting Stephen Lennon (AKA Tommy Robinson), the media questioned Farage who quickly distanced himself from the former English Defence League leader. By contrast, Lowe stated that Lennon deserves “to be given the credit for the things he’s done right”.

Splits expanded further when Musk tweeted, “I have not met Rupert Lowe, but his statements online that I have read so far make a lot of sense.” A nasty row followed with Reform soon reporting Lowe to the police over allegations of “verbal threats.” He hit back, claiming he had been suspended for being a “tall poppy,” a reference to Farage’s notorious ego and impatience with rivals.

Mass Deportations and Remigration

Now a free agent, Lowe has only become more radical, garnering increasing plaudits from more extreme elements of the far right. Once sitting as an independent, Lowe began to accuse Farage and Reform of “watering down” their position on migration, claiming they were upset with him over his “position on deportations.”

In May this year Lowe was recorded in parliament making antisemitic remarks. Commenting on the size of a camera being set up he said, “In days gone by you’d call it a Jewish camera, but that would be politically incorrect. Because it’s so small.”

However, it is on the topic of migration and deportation that he has gone furthest. In April he published Mass Deportations: A Blueprint and tabled an early day motion titled ‘Mass deportations of illegal migrants.’

This came after GB News host Andrew Pierce alleged that Lowe’s position on migration is that, “he would ship them straight off to an island off of the Scottish coast if necessary, and he actually used the quote, ‘let the midges do their work’.”

Lowe has also posted similarly extreme positions on his own X account. Recently, above a picture of people seeking asylum crossing the Channel he wrote:

I do not want these unvetted young men free to roam our streets. ‘Desperate’ asylum seekers? Come off it. Use your eyes. You can call me ‘racist’, you can call me ‘far-right’. I am so past caring. What needs to happen, urgently? Two words. Detain. Deport. All of them.

In May this year he posted: “Just as other once ‘fringe’ ideas are now mainstream, we must normalise the word ‘detention’.”

Just a few weeks ago Lowe went even further, posting: “We don’t need to just stop mass immigration, we need to reverse mass immigration.” This is perhaps the furthest he’s gone towards embracing the idea of ‘remigration.’

Fascist Excitement  

Unsurprisingly, his increasingly extreme rhetoric has created great excitement from the wider far right. To hear their talking points and rhetoric being used by an elected MP is a dream come true.

Steve Laws, a former activist of the fascist Homeland Party, tweeted: “People underestimate just how important it is to have Rupert saying this as an MP,” in relation to his comments about “reversing” immigration. He also posted, “Incredible ground gained. We have a sitting MP interacting with our guys publicly.”  This came after Lowe had responded to a tweet by Michael Wright (AKA Morgoth), the infamous fascist blogger recently identified by HOPE not hate as an influence on the American terrorist Dylann Roof.

Lowe has also done an interview for the far-right media operation Lotus Eaters, where he was interviewed by Carl Benjamin (AKA Sargon of Akkad), who came to notoriety after being banned from social platforms for using racial slurs and infamously stating that he “wouldn’t even rape” the Labour MP Jess Phillips.

Support has also come from the disgraced academic and far-right author Neema Parvini (AKA Academic Agent) who has called black people “impulsive and low IQ”.  “The future is Rupert Lowe taking over the dead husk of the Tory Party and then taking the country back,” he tweeted.

Restore Britain?

Whether his new Restore Britain ‘movement’ will gain enough traction to cause Reform UK problems at the polls remains to be seen. Already involved is Charlie Downes, a far-right activist who has referred to refugees as “invaders”, and Susan Hall, the failed Tory candidate for London mayor who liked social media posts endorsing Enoch Powell.

Steve Laws and the Hitler-apologist YouTuber Sam Wilkes (AKA Zoomer Historian) were also inspired by the launch Restore Britain; Wilkes declared that there was “no reason not to support Lowe” and Lowe’s team were imperfect but the “best option” for achieving the first stages in his plan for total ethnic cleansing in the UK. 

Whatever comes of it, having a figure as extreme as Lowe in the House of Commons is deeply worrying. Lowe’s ever-growing list of xenophobic comments and hardline positions, coupled with his willingness to openly collaborate with high-profile far-right figures, means he is currently the most extreme MP in parliament. That’s saying something when we have seen the radicalisation of the mainstream in the last decade and increasing adoption of far-right rhetoric by many parliamentarians.