The fascist figurehead Steve Laws crashes out of yet another political party, leaving a trail of conflict and disappointment behind him. How long until his followers lose patience?
Steve Laws, the “migrant hunter” turned neo-Nazi influencer, has been on the frontlines of a civil war within Restore Britain since the party’s launch in February.
The Folkestone fascist, who is known for campaigning for “total remigration” – the removal of all “non-whites” from the country – has been instrumental in rallying ethnonationalists to Rupert Lowe MP’s new party. “Lowe is our leader. GET IN LINE,” he commanded his 140,000 X following.
Extremists duly flooded into Restore. We have repeatedly exposed fascists and neo-Nazis within the party, including members of Laws’s pro-ethnic cleansing organisation, Remigration Now, some of whom reached positions of influence within Restore branches.
Inevitably, however, Laws quit the party in a sulk last weekend – scarcely six months after joining.
“After the last few weeks of horrendous decisions and refusal to defend the membership. I am officially resigning from the party. It has been one failure after another and at this stage its just a humiliation ritual.”
This was hardly surprising. Days after its launch, we predicted that Restore would split. The party precariously straddles the gulf between civic and racial nationalism, and its membership is divided over fundamental questions, particularly whether “non-white” and Jewish people can ever be considered British.
The party’s ethnonationalists have projected their own beliefs onto Lowe, who is every bit the Thatcherite “boomer” they so despise; meanwhile, Lowe regularly contradicts but fails to repudiate what his more ideologically racist underlings say in his name. A long and exhausting series of conflicts have followed, in which Laws has been a key combatant.
Moreover, Laws and his chronically online comrades have already proven themselves woefully unfit for party politics; the latest debacle is essentially a re-run of the Homeland Party crashout, but on a far larger scale.
After joining Homeland in October 2024, Laws drove recruitment to the fascist party, which gained over 1,000 members – many of them very young – over the following six months. “Homeland is inevitable,” he insisted. “We will win.”
He spent the following months in a public mudslinging match with Homeland’s “moderate” faction, before exiting in a tantrum in April 2025, lambasting the leadership for being insufficiently homophobic and antisemitic. He then dedicated himself to sinking the party he had helped build, effectively wasting the time – and money – of hundreds of members.
After insisting that party politics is a “waste of time”, Restore became the next shiny new vehicle to catch his magpie-like attention, and the pattern repeated.
Now outside Restore, he will continue to leverage his online influence to destructive effect. Last week, his supporters bullied the women and girls spokesperson Orla Minihane out of the party over a comment they deemed insufficiently racist, thereby robbing the party of one of its few figures able to appeal to the public. Meanwhile, all Laws has contributed to Restore is turmoil and bad press.
However, Laws’s record of political failure stretches back far further. Having been taken to National Front meetings as a child, he went on to dabble in For Britain, the short-lived Anne Marie Waters vehicle. He also joined Reform UK, claiming to have been invited into the party by Richard Tice before being kicked out for his tweets.
He moved on to UKIP, representing the party in the 2022 Southend West by-election, following the murder of David Amess MP. He secured 400 votes (2.7%) and quit the party a few months later.
Remarkably, this would be his highpoint at the polls; in 2024, he won 185 votes (0.4%) for the fringe English Democrats in Dover and Deal. Worse still, he won 50 votes – one for every 2,000 of his followers on X – for Homeland in Folkestone East last year, despite the ward being in his own hometown.
Laws continues to run Remigration Now (RN) alongside Annie Hobson (AKA Remigration Ruby) from Ashford in Kent, previously of the Homeland policy team. However, RN has achieved little since launching last September, beyond stickering – a proxy for activism – and attending some dismal fascist protests in the Midlands.
The group dissolved its branch structure after a series of exposés from HOPE not hate, and currently exists as a website – largely a mimic of the Patriotic Alternative site – and a new print magazine, which is unlikely to move the needle. Donors may be wondering where their money has gone.
Griping from the sidelines and typing “total remigration” on X ten times a day is not meaningful activism or political wisdom. The chain-smoking stringbean is simply too impulsive and short-sighted for politics. His supporters would do well to recognise this before he leads them down the garden path yet again.
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