Just a few months ago, the prime ministership of Nigel Farage seemed to be inevitable.
Back in May, his Reform UK Party swept the local council elections in England and performed well in Labour strongholds Wales and Scotland as well.
However, since then, the British nation has had a new Prime Minister. With Andy Burnham in Downing Street as opposed to Keir Starmer, the incumbent Labour Party got an unexpected boost. Reform UK’s national lead has shrunk to just one point in POLITICO’s polling aggregate.
In the Greater Manchester mayoral by-election, Labour candidate Bev Craig won in a landslide, besting runner-up Sian Astley of Reform UK by 21 points.
It seems that Nigel Farage can no longer afford the infighting on the British right with former Reform UK MP and the current leader of the Restore Britain Party, Rupert Lowe.
Lowe seems to be fully aware of that, so he has posted a lengthy video message on his X page addressed to Nigel Farage, offering his conditions for cooperation.
‘Nigel, when we were both elected at the general election in July 2024, the five of us [the Reform UK faction of Parliament] all knew that we had achieved something truly remarkable through starting the process of breaking the two-party system that has strangled and suffocated Britain for so very long,’ MP Lowe starts his open letter to Farage.
‘Our differences of the last 18 months are well documented. I do not agree on how you removed me from Reform…I want to move past that…Today, I’m reaching out to put personalities and our past disagreements aside for the good of the country we all so want to succeed,’ he continued.
As for his conditions to Farage, Lowe wants a commitment from his former fellow party member that he will comply with Restore Britain’s deportation plans of removing every illegal migrant, including women and children.
Lowe also wants legal immigrants who do not speak English, rely on welfare, and ‘hate our way of life’ removed and wants this policy to be included in Reform’s platform. Additionally, he made a commitment to make efforts to reverse the demographic changes in the British population in recent decades; banning Islamic practices such as halal slaughter, the wearing of the burka, and ‘mass dominating public Islamic prayer’ as conditions as well.
‘Britain is a Christian country, and we must ensure that it remains that way,’ Rupert Lowe declared.
Lowe’s other three conditions to Farage are a referendum on the reintroduction of the death penalty in the United Kingdom, cutting welfare costs and the overall government budget, and cabinet personnel reform.
Nigel Farage's Response to Rupert Lowe
It would have been naive on the part of Lowe’s supporters to think that Nigel Farage would simply accept the demands from the leader of a party that is polling at three per cent nationally, far behind his.
However, it is bad news for even those who hoped this would start a dialogue between the two influential right-wing British figures, that Farage did not even address Lowe by name in his response.
‘The next election will be an existential fight to save the country we love, a mission I have now been fighting for over 30 years. After two national election victories in as many years, many people now recognize that it will be a binary choice between Reform UK and Labour,’ Farage wrote at the beginning of his lengthy X post, which was published after Rupert Lowe’s open letter to him, on the same day.
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