After Rupert Lowe’s splashy launch of Restore Britain, the ex-Reform MP claims to now have north of 80,000 members. Some Reform HQ insiders are twitchy about Lowe peeling off chunks of the grassroot voters. One source admits Lowe is “extremely well connected” and, with serious donor cash, could snatch low single digits in the polls. It hasn’t gone unnoticed that tech billionaire Elon Musk has endorsed Lowe’s party multiple times in recent days either…
Still, cooler heads point to the numbers. A recent JL Partners poll has Lowe recognised by just 8% of the public – hardly the stuff of insurgent nightmares. Nigel Farage took a thinly veiled swipe at Lowe yesterday, warning that failures on immigration are fuelling “extreme right ethno-nationalism” in recent weeks. Even so, a few insiders are quietly musing about getting the band back together, if either party could be convinced. Farage hasn’t explicitly ruled out a Reform-Restore pact yet…
