Rupert Lowe

Nigel Farage loses viral touch to Musk-backed Rupert Lowe

Far-right offshoot Restore Britain gains traction on social media platform X ahead of key Makerfield by-election

Lowe’s hard-right Restore Britain has a plan to hammer Farage nationwide

LONDON — Rupert Lowe denies there’s anything personal about his drive to make Restore Britain a nationwide force — and squeeze his rival Nigel Farage from the right. But there are plenty of reasons to suspect deep rancor between the pair plays a part. “I don’t work with people who try and send me to prison for nothing.

Nigel Farage's next nightmare as surprise change 'could cost Reform 70 seats'

Restore Britain, set up by Rupert Lowe, is threatening to eat into Reform's vote by promising to 'reverse mass immigration', which includes cruel policies like housing asylum seekers in tents

The party dragging Nigel Farage further to the right – podcast

Daniel Trilling on the far-right party threatening Reform’s chances in the Makerfield byelectionDoes Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain threaten to erode the Reform UK vote share in the Makerfield byelection?“Restore [Britain] have positioned themselves as a harder-line alternative to Reform,” says Daniel Trilling, journalist and author of If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable. “They’re pushing for an even more extreme policy of deportations for...

'Raped by a dog': Westminster debate on grooming-gang survivor testimonies

TOI correspondent from London: British MPs assembled at Westminster Hall heard this Monday graphic testimonies of grooming-gang survivors describing trafficking, rape and torture at the hands of mostly Pakistani-origin men, forcing parliament to revisit a sordid saga mothballed by decades of institutional failure. A survivor recounted in her recorded testimony, read out by Restore Britain MP Rupert Lowe, how a gang of rapists once filled a room with dogs, "making bets on whether the dogs...

Does UK’s new far-right party, Restore, pose a threat to Farage’s Reform?

Does UK’s new far-right party, Restore, pose a threat to Farage’s Reform? Restore Britain’s manifesto has pledged to implement the ‘most ambitious programme of mass deportations ever seen in Britain’. When Nigel Farage, leader of the far-right, anti-immigration party Reform UK, addressed the nation while bizarrely standing in a field this week, he was a man on a mission.

From a ‘plucky plumber’ to the ‘King in the North’: Who are the Makerfield by-election candidates?

From a ‘plucky plumber’ to the ‘King in the North’: Who are the Makerfield by-election candidates? Polls suggest it will be a tight race between Labour candidate Andy Burnham and Reform UK’s Robert Kenyon - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments In two weeks’ time, the people of Makerfield will head to the polls in what could be the most important by-election in recent history. The outcome of the contest – triggered by the resignation of Labour MP and former minister Josh Simons – will likely...

Why Britain and America can’t stop firing their leaders

LONDON — Donald Trump and Keir Starmer will never be linked in the same fashion as political tandems Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher or Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. But the two beleaguered leaders may be remembered for leaving the same legacy — demonstrating that their countries are both in desperate need of a cleansing. Starmer is facing a revolt in his own party — he may be ousted by a man who’s not even in Parliament yet — and were Trump to submit to a secret confidence vote from...

An horrific murder – and a civil war threatening to tear apart the British right | Joe Mulhall

After the conviction of Henry Nowak’s killer, the right is embracing racialised language. This tragedy is now just part of a political tussleJoe Mulhall is director of research at the anti-fascism organisation Hope Not HateThe video of the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak at the hands of Vickrum Digwa in Southampton is horrifying. But Nigel Farage’s decision to respond to these events by calling for “pure cold rage” and insisting we recognise that “white lives matter” is a worrying sign of...

Musk retweet signals rightwing split that could help Burnham in Makerfield byelection