Steve Laws: Ethnic cleansing extremist claims “daily” contact with Restore Britain top team

HOPE not hate exposes the links between Restore Britain, the new party led by Rupert Lowe MP, and the fascist figurehead Steve Laws:

• Laws calls for the ethnic cleansing of all “non-whites” from the UK
• He claims to have had “daily” contact with Lowe’s closest advisors 
• Laws has encouraged members of his own organisation, Remigration Now, to become Restore branch organisers and candidates

Since launching as a political party last month, Restore Britain, the new vehicle of Rupert Lowe MP, has galvanised the extreme right. 

The group’s promise to “reverse” mass migration via “millions” of deportations has proved irresistible to a broad sweep of extremists, with even some militant neo-Nazis voicing support. Restore’s silence regarding its fascist fans has been taken as an implicit invitation, and membership – which purportedly exceeded 120,000 last week – contains a vocal contingent of ideological racists.

Among Lowe’s loudest cheerleaders is Steve Laws, a former “migrant hunter” who cemented his reputation as “Britain’s biggest racist” last year. The influencer is notorious for his relentless pursuit of “total remigration” – the ethnic cleansing of anyone with non-white heritage from Britain.

Laws has encouraged his 140k followers on X to intimidate migrants to force them from the country, and egged on the racist riots of 2024. “Hold the line. Do not disavow”, he tweeted from the safety of his home in Kent, as mob violence swept the UK.

The antisemite has also denied the Holocaust, claimed he would be “straight behind” the Nazi regime in the 1930s, and said of Hitler: “He’s very much a misunderstood politician. I’d say a lot of the stuff that he advocated for in the German people would do wonders for our people right now.”

The politically promiscuous activist has hopped between numerous far-right and neo-Nazi groups, including several failed election bids. Last September, Laws also launched the pressure group Remigration Now (RN) to campaign for the forced removal of all “non-whites”. The group’s AI-generated propaganda demonstrate its expansive goals, which include deporting the entirety of the UK’s Black, Asian and Jewish communities: 

Laws is now channeling his energies into Restore, telling his followers:

“It’s not enough to just join Restore. You need to get out and campaign. Leafleting, door to door canvassing, help out with local and national elections and everything in between.

Take the online momentum to the streets.

Restore has given us the vehicle. It’s on all of us to secure the victory.”

X, 16 February 2026

Steve Laws and Lowe’s Team

In private, Laws has shed light on his unwavering support for the MP. In a series of messages posted to the RN internal chat group, the extremist claimed to have the support of – and direct contact with – Lowe’s closest advisors. 

On 10 January, Laws said that Restore Campaigns Director and Spokesman Charlie Downes is “very tuned in to our circles […] I’ve met him a few times down my way, he’s sound”.

On 15 February, shortly after the launch of the party, he wrote: “Civnats [civic nationalists] are working overtime to get the party to disavow me. Leadership all support me btw 😂” And later that day: “We are so back. I can assure you all his top team are our guys”.

He also claimed to have spoken to Maria Bowtell, Restore’s Head of Local Government and first councillor, the night following Restore’s launch.

On 16 February, he reiterated:

“His team around him are literally our guys. I’ve met them all. I speak to some daily. I’m in because of them. They’re also well to the right of HP [Homeland Party], NRP [National Rebirth Party], BF [Britain First] and BDP [British Democratic Party]. I can assure you or that [sic]. These young zoomers are radical. They can just play the game”.

Telegram, 16 February 2026

He continued: “Top team literally reach out to a few of us nats [nationalists]. They know they need our influence”.

Laws certainly believes he is influencing Lowe. Last October, in his speech at the conference of the neo-Nazi group Patriotic Alternative, he said:

“The only reason we have people like Rupert Lowe echoing our talking points is because we’ve been unapologetic in our position. We’ve created a pathway for these people to move in. This is why we need our radicals. We need people to drag the window as far as possible so the politicians can move into another, safer position.”

PA conference, 4 October 2025

Now, he is seeking to establish a “stronghold” within Restore in order to exert his influence more directly, telling members of RN:

“I would advise any of you not as damaging as myself to get in as branch officers, candidates etc. we can create a stronghold in that party and really hold some weight over the direction.

Telegram, 25 February 2026

For example, he claimed he would use his influence to “bully” Ben Habib, leader of rival party Advance UK, out of Restore if the proposed merger came to pass, repeatedly calling Habib a “p*ki”. 

Separately, Laws also claimed to have received funding from an unnamed Member of Parliament. On 4 February, he wrote: “I had an MP (I won’t say who) donate to me last year and he got zero pushback etc”. He erased the message within a minute of posting, writing: “Deleted that info to be safe lol”, but not before it was archived by HOPE not hate. There is no indication that this MP is Lowe.

Restore Britain did not respond to our request for comment.

Restore has lofty ambitions, with Lowe even claiming that his party aims to win the next general election. However, association with figures like Laws is unlikely to play well to voters. Laws is controversial even within Restore itself; for example, Max Stenner, the group’s newly appointed North Dorset branch organiser, described Laws as “odious” and “filled to the brim with hatred” before being hounded by Laws’ supporters on X last weekend.

In any case, the fact that Laws, who pushes the most extreme possible interpretation of the “remigration” policy, believes he has found allies in Restore is concerning. Lowe and Restore vigorously deny insinuations of “neo-Nazism”. However, the party’s apparent open-door policy to extremists demands scrutiny.