Rupert Lowe, leader of the Restore Britain party, denied claims by Nigel Farage that he has fallen out with the establishment Conservative Party, inadvertently confirming ongoing cooperation.
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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Rupert Lowe, leader of the Elon Musk-backed Restore Britain party, has denied claims by Nigel Farage of a falling out with the establishment Conservative (Tory) Party, confirming that he has been in contact with anti-populist Tory leader Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke “Kemi” Badenoch, and that there is “no issue” between them. 💬 KEY QUOTE: “[There was] some extraordinary comment from Nigel [Farage] about me falling out with the Tories… I have been in touch with Kemi, and as far as I’m aware and she’s aware, there’s no issue there,” Lowe told Dan Wootton during a YouTube interview on Monday. 📰 DETAIL: Lowe also confirmed the Tories have been boosting him since he was ousted from Farage’s Reform party after an independent investigation found there were “credible” allegations he and his team were bullying female staff. “I mean, the reason I set up a movement [Restore Britain] was to try and unite the right, initially, and it served its purpose in that the Tories put me on the Public Accounts Committee, which is arguably the most powerful committee in Parliament,” he boasted. 🎯 IMPACT: Lowe’s comments will undermine his efforts to present himself and Restore as a more right-wing offering than Farage and Reform, given the Tories’ responsibility for the unprecedented “Boriswave” of mass migration prior to losing office to the incumbent Labour Party in 2024. Badenoch, who was raised in Nigeria and describes herself as a “first-generation immigrant,” was a government minister when the Tories were opening the country’s borders, actively lobbying to remove caps on the annual influx of migrant workers and foreign students, and publicly thanking the government for doing so in Parliament. |
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