Tice is one of the most inept politicians you will ever see - Sarah Pochin says hold my beer
Richard Tice: Andy Burnham has splinters in his backside because he sits on so many fences
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Just even if restore were not a thing reform would have lost quite comfortably
Also reform won zero seats in council elections and lost 2 seats to Tories
Divisive privately educated multimillionaire former investment banker Rupert Lowe is spearheading the furthest-right flank of Britain’s accelerating elite populist shift, with documented support from white supremacists.
Lowe (Radley College alumnus, ex-City financier at Morgan Grenfell, Deutsche Bank and Barings, and multimillionaire businessman) quit Reform UK to launch Restore Britain in 2026.
He leads the most radical participant in a “right-wing arms race” to champion inhumane mass deportations, including of many long-term legal residents and UK-born ethnic minorities.
Lowe has called for “millions and millions” of law-abiding non-white people who have made their homes here to be deported from Britain.
This push is anchored in the #55TuftonStreet network that once drove Brexit. Building owner and Reform donor Richard Smith has channelled funds (via the Street Foundation) to the New Culture Forum, which hosted key Restore figures.
In a 2025 NCF podcast, Harrison Pitt (now Restore’s senior policy fellow) and campaigns director Charlie Downes urged competition among right-wing leaders (naming Lowe, Farage, Jenrick and Ben Habib) to “outbid one another from the right” on radical policies.
Lowe has delivered a 133-page mass deportation blueprint co-authored with Pitt, calling for 150,000–200,000 annual forced removals, “austere tent camps,” and the removal of millions to achieve what the party frames as ethnic and cultural “restoration.”
Downes has spoken of an “ethnically homogenous Christian Britain,” while Lowe has declared “millions will have to go.”
Yet there are not 'millions' under Lowe’s categorisations, because the best available evidence puts the total pool of people fitting his core targets (unauthorised residents excluding pending asylum claims, failed asylum seekers after final refusal, foreign national offenders, and long-term non-contributors — at under a million at most, with substantial overlaps.
Lowe and the other elite populists are almost as far away from Christian/British values as it is possible to be.
Restore Britain weaponises legitimate scandals such as Pakistani-heritage grooming gangs through reports that make absurd extrapolation of victim numbers into the hundreds of thousands. They know that grooming gangs make up less that 4% of child sexual abuse cases.
This selective focus fuels collective ethnic blame and broader “remigration” beyond criminals and people who entered the UK through irregular routes, and who are not necessarily “illegals”.
Today’s Telegraph added a stark layer: white supremacists with links to banned neo-Nazi groups are among those funding and joining Restore. Donors include Steve Laws, who founded a group demanding the expulsion of every non-white and Jewish person from Britain and who has publicly donated. American white nationalist Jared Taylor (banned from the UK) is a paid-up member, alongside figures such as jailed racial-hatred stirrer Sam Melia, Nazi apologist Sam Wilkes, and others.
Lowe refuses to condemn these grotesque extremists and has dismissed the revelations as smears, making the pathetic excuse that parties cannot vet every supporter (these vile racists are donors and members) and that his policy focus remains on deporting criminals and restoring an ill-defined British identity.
Lowe’s trajectory from establishment City insider and Southampton FC chairman to masquerading as an anti-establishment outsider exemplifies elite populist positioning: a wealthy establishment veteran now railing against the system that enriched him, while his party, backed by #TuftonSt infrastructure and attracting explicit far-right money, shamelessly normalises far-right discourse, policies, and, demographic reversal.
As Restore competes with Reform in Makerfield, this dynamic marks the Brexit-era right’s evolution into explicit ethno-nationalist territory, intensifying polarisation.
These divisive bigots don’t belong in today’s Britain. They belong in 1930s Germany.