A HOPE not hate investigation reveals:
“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 [Restore] and really hold some weight over the direction.” Steve Laws, Telegram, 25 February 2026
This is what Steve Laws privately told members of his pro-ethnic cleansing group, Remigration Now, shortly after Restore Britain launched as a party.
Laws, a former “migrant hunter”, is notorious for his relentless pursuit of “total remigration” – the purging of anyone with “non-white” heritage from Britain.
The influencer, who claimed he would be “straight behind” the Nazi regime in the 1930s, now heads the pressure group Remigration Now (RN) to campaign for the forced removal of ethnic minorities, including British Jews.
Many RN activists are former members of the fascist Homeland Party, Laws’s previous vehicle, while others have links to the neo-Nazi groups Patriotic Alternative (PA), White Vanguard, the Active Club network and more.
Laws’s latest enthusiasm is Restore Britain. As we revealed in March, the extremist privately boasted of having “daily” contact with members of Restore’s top team, whom he believes to have similar ideological leanings to himself.
Laws represents the vocal fascist faction within Restore, which has been the source of internal conflict. Tensions recently intensified after Lowe publicly disavowed “far right ethnonationalist or neo-Nazism”, and reportedly claimed that he has had to “stamp on” his party’s young ethnonationalists.
However, Laws remains in Restore to “fight it out”, claiming that there are “multiple factions competing for control over the direction of the party”.
Now, a HOPE not hate investigation reveals that figures associated with Remigration Now are embedded within Restore, including some who have positions of influence within local branches. Others have praised Hitler, used racial slurs and even promoted the defiling of the corpses of ethnic minorities.
The most visible is Callum Barker, a fascist social media influencer and former member of the neo-Nazi groups Patriotic Alternative and Homeland Party. A close associate of Laws, Barker has attended numerous party events and has the express support of Restore spokesman Charlie Downes.
HOPE not hate exposed Barker’s identity in 2023, and revealed that he has posed with a copy of the Unabomber Manifesto and produced artwork inspired by the Nazi slogan “Blood & Soil”.
However, the links between RN and Restore run far deeper. Lydia Straiton, Restore’s London City & East branch organiser, joined the RN members chat in January, writing that she wanted to “start building networks” in East London.
The following month, Straiton discussed leafleting for Laws’s group, writing: “in my area (Tower Hamlets) whites are in the minority but it’s because they are in the minority they would be open to the RN messaging.”
Jonathan Kennedy (AKA Uncle Badger), an RN propagandist, told other RN members in April that he was running the social media for his local Restore branch of Blackpool and Fleetwood, Lancashire.
Kennedy, who attempts to obscure his identity online, was snapped campaigning for the party in Makerfield in May, and also attended the national branch organisers meeting later that month. On joining Restore in February, he told other RN members that he had “kept a clean social media profile for many years for a reason”.
Fellow northwestern activist Barry Marshall, based in Heysham, attended the first meeting and leafleting session of Restore’s Lancaster and Wyre branch.
Marshall uses the alias “HowlingBowden” to post Nazi material to X and described his religion as “Esoteric Hitlerism”, a bizarre cult that worships Hitler as an incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. He wrote in April:
“On this day, 20th Of April 1889, Adolf Hitler was born. A man ‘against time’, he represented the complete antithesis of the values of decay of the present age, seeking to destroy the old ways and bring about a radical new world. Happy birthday Hitler!” Barry Marshall, X, 20 April 2026
Notably, Fraser Hill, an RN activist in Gloucester, claims to have chaired the inaugural meeting of Restore’s Forest of Dean branch in June. According to Hill, he was “honoured” to “sub in as chairman” as “nobody in my local Restore branch was willing to take on the responsibility”.
Hill, who attended a Patriotic Alternative protest in Warwick in February, is also leader of the fringe National Distributist Party. He wrote that “Anyone not coopting [Restore’s] network to find new recruits for their movement is losing out.”
Another RN activist embedded within Restore is Mackenzie Hoad, a former Homeland activist from Bromley. Hoad, who has repeatedly called Muslims “muzzies”, has distributed RN leaflets and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Laws at rallies in Warwick, Nuneaton and London this year. He also campaigned for Restore in Great Yarmouth, Makerfield and Epping.
RN activist Callum Leat was also snapped at a Restore branch meeting Chippenham. Leat, who has a conviction for assault, is a former Britain First activist and candidate for the National Housing Party UK, a fringe far-right outfit. He joined RN in February, describing the Gorton & Denton by-election as won by “paki voters”.
Moreover, Reece Cartwright, based in Cannock, attended the first Restore meeting in Lichfield, with branch accounts posting . Cartwright told other RN members in February that he had “Just put myself forward for my local council […] I think this is our chance to get our stance into a major party”.
Cartwright attended PA protests in Warwick and Nuneaton this year, as well as an event organised by White Vanguard in Southampton, posing alongside black-clad members of the militant neo-Nazi group.
Restore Britain did not respond to our request for comment.
We can reveal that RN member Francis Alexander, the man behind a Restore Croydon X account, also ran another account dedicated to raping and cannibalising the corpses of non-white people.
Alexander, a former Homeland member, was an early signup to Restore, writing that he “believe[s] in Downes and Lowe” and “we’re going to go to war for your [sic] Rupert”.
On 1 March, he established a “Restore Croydon” X account, which gained more than 1,800 followers.
The account, which described itself as a “Grassroots Restore Britain community for Croydon residents and Restore Britain members”, was one of numerous unofficial Restore accounts.
He explained to other RN members: “The sooner we form a local group, the sooner we become the branch by default,” also claiming that he was “going full clean skin”.
However, Alexander also ran another account, “Man of the Exhumation Right”, until its suspension last week. He used this account to fantasise about disinterring and defiling the dead bodies of those he regards as political and racial enemies.
This includes Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager murdered in a racist stabbing in 1993.
On Christmas Day last year, he wrote: “I’m going to dig up all of them. Eat most of them. Shag the ones that still have a bit of flesh on them. And then deport them all in bin bags. Merry Christmas.” He continued: “I’m here for dig them up, shag them and eat them […] pass me the cutlery and the gravy.”
Alexander frequently uses extreme racial slurs, and wrote of the Reform UK MP Suella Braverman and her husband, who is Jewish: “Her – on a plan back to the subcontinent. Her husband – on a baking tray to go in the oven.”
Alexander also described Britain’s deadliest antisemitic pogrom, and the flogging of black slaves, as “better times”:
There are numerous similar posts.
After Lowe’s condemnation of ethnonationalism, Alexander’s enthusiasm for Restore appears to have cooled, making a series of posts criticising the party leader and, on 7 July, writing that he is “still somewhat on the fence about RB”.
He also renamed the Restore Croydon account to “Mr Croydon Chud”, but retains the Restore logo as the account picture.
Alexander did not respond to our request for comment.
More extremists are turning up at Restore events, and we will expose them in the coming weeks.
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