'I don't care': Meet the man building Britain's new populist, anti-immigration right



The name Rupert Lowe will probably be unfamiliar to many Americans. To look at him, the former Reform U.K. member of parliament is the quintessential English gentleman — a farmer who breeds pedigree cattle amid the rolling hills of Gloucestershire, looking every bit the part in a waxed jacket and muddy Wellington boots.

Behind the pastoral image, however, lies one of Britain's most controversial political figures.

Restore proposes what Lowe describes as 'the most ambitious program of mass deportations ever seen' in Britain.

No friend of Farage

Reform U.K. suspended Lowe in March 2025 over allegations of workplace bullying before eventually expelling him from the party. Lowe has always maintained the allegations were politically motivated, arguing he was forced out because he took a harder line on immigration than the party leadership. He has since accused Nigel Farage of running Reform with a "messianic" leadership style that sidelines anyone viewed as a threat.

Following his expulsion, Lowe spent the next year sitting in the House of Commons as an independent MP for Great Yarmouth. During that political exile, he quietly laid the groundwork for a comeback, launching Restore Britain as a pressure group before registering it as a political party in early 2026. On March 23, Lowe officially entered parliament as Restore Britain's sole MP.

The new party occupies territory to the right of Reform, embracing policies — including mass deportations — that Farage has been reluctant to endorse.

That split soon attracted one of the world's most influential political voices.

'Weak sauce'

After initially expressing support for Reform, Elon Musk publicly broke with Farage, saying he "doesn't have what it takes" and describing his leadership as "weak sauce." Musk instead backed Lowe, dramatically increasing Restore Britain's online profile.

Within months, the party claimed more than one million social media followers and roughly 130,000 members — surpassing the Conservative Party's reported membership. In July, Lowe became the first British politician to appear on "The Joe Rogan Experience," introducing his movement to millions of viewers outside Britain.

If Reform seeks to channel public frustration, Restore Britain aims to dismantle the political consensus that has governed Britain for decades.

Its central objective is reversing what supporters call the "Boriswave" — the surge in migration that followed Brexit. Between 2021 and 2024, roughly 2.6 million people arrived in Britain. Under current law, many migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave to Remain after five years, opening a pathway to welfare benefits and eventually British citizenship.

Ready to remigrate

Restore proposes removing access to state benefits for ILR holders in an effort to encourage voluntary departures while also promising what Lowe describes as "the most ambitious program of mass deportations ever seen" in Britain. The party's proposed "remigration" policy would prioritize deporting foreign nationals who commit crimes, rely on welfare, cannot speak English, or live in social housing.

Restore also advocates ending voting rights and eligibility for public office for foreign nationals at every level of government. Supporters argue the proposal would reduce sectarian politics and ensure elected officials remain primarily accountable to British citizens rather than recent immigrant communities.

The party points to cases such as Labour MPs Tahir Ali and Mohammad Yasin, who urged Pakistan's prime minister to support construction of an international airport in Mirpur, as examples of lawmakers prioritizing overseas interests while representing British constituencies.

Kissing cousins

Restore also pushes beyond Reform on cultural issues.

One example is cousin marriage. Although Farage has expressed support for bans adopted elsewhere in Europe, he has stopped short of proposing one for Britain.

Restore explicitly supports banning the practice. The party argues that cousin marriage reinforces clan-based social structures, slows integration, and contributes to elevated rates of inherited genetic disorders within some communities. Critics of the practice frequently cite data from the Born in Bradford study, in which researchers have documented unusually high rates of certain inherited conditions associated with consanguineous marriage.

The party has taken similarly uncompromising positions elsewhere. It supports banning the burqa and niqab in public and ending religious exemptions that permit halal and kosher slaughter without prior stunning, arguing both policies are necessary to strengthen national cohesion and reinforce what it considers British values.

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'I don't care'

Another issue that has helped define Restore Britain is Britain's long-running grooming gang scandal, in which organized groups of men sexually exploited and raped vulnerable children. Many of the country's most notorious cases — including Rotherham, Rochdale, and Huddersfield — involved gangs of men of Pakistani heritage.

Although the government's statutory inquiry followed Baroness Louise Casey's independent review, Lowe has sought to make the scandal central to Restore's political identity. The party funded its own inquiry, pressed ministers to preserve evidence for the official investigation, and argues that years of institutional reluctance to confront the offenders' backgrounds reflected a broader failure of Britain's political establishment. Supporters credit Lowe with helping keep public attention on the issue, while critics contend Restore has used it to advance its wider political agenda.

Such positions have predictably drawn fierce criticism.

The Daily Mail and the Telegraph have both published investigations into Restore Britain's candidates and supporters. Critics argue the scrutiny reflects legitimate questions about the party's leadership and membership. Restore supporters see something different: an establishment campaign designed to halt the movement before it can gain traction.

Academic and former Reform candidate Matt Goodwin likewise dismissed many of those leaving Reform for Restore, describing them in an interview with Spiked as "the wrong kinds of people, who hold the wrong kinds of ideas." He characterized many critics of Reform as "amateurs, egomaniacs, zoomers with very little political experience."

Lowe's response has since become something of a rallying cry for his supporters.

"I don't care."

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Jordan Peterson drills down on problems with multiculturalism amid renewed fury over mass rape of British girls



Outrage about the systematic mass rape of British girls by Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs and about politically correct authorities' failure to hold the pedophilic rapists accountable is mounting once again, reignited in part by the leftist Starmer government's rejection of a call for a formal public inquiry into child exploitation in the Greater Manchester town of Oldham and by Elon Musk's efforts to highlight past governmental failures.

Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson and Natalie Winters, co-host of Steve Bannon's "War Room," joined Piers Morgan on his show Tuesday to discuss the combined effort by the media and law enforcement to cover up the mass rapes in order to avoid anti-Muslim sentiment.

Morgan, like his guests, vociferously condemned both the Muslim rape gangs and woke authorities' cover-up of their crimes; however, later in the episode, he attempted to argue that multiculturalism was not to blame. His argument was quickly chewed up.

At the outset, Morgan — no fan of Islam critic Tommy Robinson — credited Robinson with "bang[ing] the drum about the rape gang scandal for a very long time" and played a clip of the activist's 2011 interview with former BBC broadcaster Jeremy Paxman, in which he suggested the scandal had been ignored because the impact was largely absorbed by working-class Britons: "Do you know anyone who's been murdered by a Muslim gang? You probably don't. I do. Do you know any 15-year-old girls that ... you've grown up with that have been raped or pimped? You don't — so I don't expect you to understand the issue."

When asked to explain why Britons felt compelled to downplay or ignore the rape of white, predominantly working-class British girls, Peterson broke the issue down into "four bins of complexity" around the issue:

  • "The first is the racial divide that typifies the crimes. So it's Pakistani Muslim immigrants and white working-class young girls. So there's a racial, ethnic, and religious divide that is part and parcel of the crime."
  • "Then there is a class issue in the U.K. with regards to the victims and also the whistleblowers like Robinson."
  • "Then there's the meta-problem of the difference between Islam and Christianity [and] the additional problem that psychopathic sadists use religious justification to camouflage and justify their crimes."
  • "Then there's the problem of open borders and immigration and the progressive presumption that all cultures, no matter their difference, are valuable in their diversity and can be integrated peacefully into society at ... an indefinite rate."

Adding right-left politics atop the mix, Peterson noted "that's an absolute bloody rats' nest."

While recognizing the complexity of the issue, Peterson offered an apparent critique of multiculturalism, suggesting that sexual misbehavior and other undesirable social traits are everywhere default traits that have been uniquely rejected by the historically anomalous West.

"Like the default position for an unguarded woman worldwide and throughout history has been 'rape target,'" said Peterson. "That's the norm, not the civilized conduct that generally obtains between men and women even in public on the streets in the West."

'Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate.'

"40 out of 50 Muslim-majority countries in the world are authoritarian hellholes, and only three of them are democracies," Peterson noted later in the interview. "There are certainly doctrines in Islam that are very, very difficult to square with free, liberal, Western, Christian democracies, and those differences aren't just apparent — they're deep."

Peterson also pointed out that "100% of Protestant- or Catholic-majority countries outside of Africa are highly functional democracies. 100%. 6% of Muslim-majority countries are democracies, and they're not in the highly functional category."

After Peterson intimated that the multicultural project in the West has meant the admission and tolerance of populations for which sexual misbehavior and other barbaric practices are the norm, he indicated that the cover-up of the scandal was the result, in part, of fear of leftist political backlash and Islamic violence; of the elite's decision to "sacrifice the children of working-class Brits to the moral grandstanding of their progressive elitism"; and to the woke establishment's expertise in "identifying individuals and bringing reputation-savaging to bear on them in an extremely effective way."

Morgan, apparently still convinced that "multiculturalism has been very successful" in the U.K., asked Natalie Winters late in the episode, "Why should we blame multiculturalism in totality for [the Pakistani rape gang scandal]?"

"I don't really think that tolerance should be the paramount virtue if the disparate cultures that you're importing into said country are cultures that, frankly, I think are conducive to gang-raping of young girls," said Winters, adding that pedophilia was codified in the Quran.

"Our leaders will say that assimilation is racist, it's neocolonial, it's not appropriate to say that cultures that have different values and standards than us need to adopt the shared culture of the country that they're immigrating to," continued Winters.

Elements of the British government have in recent years issued similar critiques of multiculturalism.

Blaze News previously reported that former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman told an audience in Washington, D.C., in September 2023, "Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate."

"[Multiculturalism] has failed because it allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it," continued Braverman. "And in extreme cases, they could pursue lives aimed at undermining the stability and threatening the security of our society. We are living with the consequences of that failure today."

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Musk accuses Britain's leftist PM of failing to tackle Pakistani gangs' systematic rape of children



Thousands of British girls were systematically raped, tortured, and trafficked by Pakistani grooming gangs from the late 1980s well into the new millennium. For years, authorities failed to help the victims and hold the pedophilic rapists accountable in part because of "nervousness about race." The British media, rendered largely useless by political correctness and an apparent disinterest in the fate of white, working-class children, similarly dropped the ball and in some cases even suppressed details about the horrific and widespread issue.

Former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman, a critic of the "misguided dogma of multiculturalism," noted in September 2023 that the "systematic rape, abuse and exploitation of young girls by organized gangs of older men — and the disgraceful failure of the authorities to act despite ample evidence — is a stain on our country."

Elon Musk generated serious waves Wednesday by suggesting that the recent refusal by the isles' stained Labour government to take a closer look at the historic abuse is connected with the leftist prime minister's apparent failures of yesteryear.

"In the UK, serious crimes such as rape require the Crown Prosecution Service's approval for the police to charge suspects," Musk tweeted Wednesday. "Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice? Keir Starmer, 2008-2013."

The Financial Times noted that during the time period highlighted by Musk, Starmer served as director of public prosecutions, getting around to prosecuting elements of the Rochdale rape gang only during his final year in the position — after the scandal in Greater Manchester became too great to ignore.

Starmer admitted in 2012 that the rapists had long escaped justice because police, prosecutors, and the courts had failed to understand the nature of the abuse.

"In a number of cases presented to us, particularly in cases involving groups, there's clearly an issue of ethnicity that has to be understood and addressed," Starmer said. "But if we're honest it’s the approach to the victims, the credibility issue, that caused these cases not to be prosecuted in the past. There was a lack of understanding."

The Financial Times indicated that the prime minister's office declined to comment on Musk's accusation.

Hours after suggesting Starmer failed to hold rapists to account as a prosecutor, Musk suggested Starmer's Labour government has since added insult to injury.

"Who is the boss of Jess Phillips right now? Keir Stamer," tweeted Musk. "The real reason she's refusing to investigate the rape gangs is that it would obviously lead to the blaming of Keir Stamer (head of the CPS at the time)."

Jess Phillips, whom Musk said "deserves to be in prison," has served as Starmer's parliamentary under-secretary of state for safeguarding and violence against women and girls since July.

'It's clear whose side she is on.'

GB News reported that Phillips turned down the Oldham Council executive's request for a formal public inquiry into child sexual exploitation in their borough. Shadow Home Office minister Chris Philp told the BBC that Conservatives backed Oldham Council's request.

In her response, Phillips reportedly suggested that she understands "the strength of feeling that a further inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham should be undertaken" but that "it is for Oldham Council alone to decide to commission an inquiry into child sexual exploitation locally, rather than for the Government to intervene."

Former Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister Liz Truss noted, "This is Jess Phillips, the same Home Office Minister who excused masked Islamist thugs. Her title 'Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls' is a perversion of the English language. It's clear whose side she is on."

'2025 must be the year that the victims start to get justice.'

The Critic echoed Musk's suggestion that Phillips might oppose an inquiry for fear of uncovering "the extent of institutional complicity" but noted further that "one also can't help wondering if Phillips — who, at the last General Election, narrowly triumphed in her heavily Muslim Birmingham Yardley constituency over Jody McIntyre, a Muslim candidate campaigning on the issue of Gaza — fears upsetting her constituents."

Tom Jones, writing for Unherd, suggested that "the reasons for refusing a Government intervention can be disputed, but it cannot be disputed that it is reprehensible. The case for a centralized inquiry is clear: while this request was for Oldham alone, there has been a rape gang scandal in over 50 British towns and cities. This is a staggering scale of depravity, and most cases are marked by close resemblances in their systematic nature."

Jones noted further that the government has the resources, authority, and backing necessary to launch a proper inquiry, not to mention the distance that would be lacking should the council in Oldham investigate its own conduct.

While the Starmer government appears uninterested in pursuing answers in Oldham, Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservative Party, noted Thursday morning, "The time is long overdue for a full national inquiry into the rape gangs scandal."

"Trials have taken place all over the country in recent years but no one in authority has joined the dots," wrote Badenoch. "2025 must be the year that the victims start to get justice."

Chris Philp told the BBC, "We need a proper national inquiry to look at all of these issues across all of the towns affected. And I'm afraid to say there are something like, you know, 15 to 25 different towns involved, covering thousands and thousands of victims."

Philp noted further that the inquiry should examine why the pedophile rape gangs were "overwhelmingly of South Asian background."

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