To Restore Britain or Destroy it?

Over the past two years in particular, the two party system of the UK has come crashing down, with the Labour and Conservative Parties no longer being the only viable options for those trying to make a difference. With Reform’s astonishing rise in the polls, followed quickly by the meteoric advance of the Green Party’s popularity, it would seem to any onlooker that the country’s political system is an open warground, ripe for the taking. And amidst this free-for-all, a new challenger has emerged in the form of Rupert Lowe’s new political party, named 'Restore Britain’.

Rupert Lowe has been on the right side of politics for decades now, often working closely with Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, the current leader in British polls. However, in mid 2025, Lowe split from the party over a series of allegations about dismissive and toxic behaviour towards the chairman of Reform, Zia Yusuf, in addition to Lowe’s frequent conflicts with Farage over which direction to take the party. While Farage himself is considered far-right by many, with 58% of Britons believing that his party holds extremist views, Lowe argued - and still does - that the party needs to shift even further to the right, especially with regards to social and immigration policy. 

For example, one of the key differences between the two parties, as described by a Restore spokesman, is that while Reform believes that through the legal process and cultural assimilation, anyone from anywhere has the potential to become British, Rupert Lowe’s new party states that "Britain is a people defined by indigenous British ancestry and Christian faith.” While Reform claim that race and religion have no bearing on nationality, therefore, their further right counterparts mandate that in order to be British, one must both be white and Christian, excluding approximately 60% of the nation from their census counts. 

This extremist approach has been described as “Neo-nazi” by even Reform politicians, such as Laila Cunningham, the Reform candidate for Mayor of London. Such an extreme route is unlikely to garner enough support to win any kind of direct majority in terms of votes; however, due to the lack of proportional representation in the UK’s government, it is entirely possible that with now six different political parties competing for power, a plurality of even just 20% could give any party, including Restore, the reins. 

It is not difficult to imagine any sort of Lowe premiership as a disaster - not only would him even entering government set more than two thirds of the country in flames against him, as even many of his political “allies” on the right have publicly denounced him as a racist, but from what little is known of his party, it seems to favour hugely expensive programmes, whilst simultaneously advocating for massive tax cuts. One of Restore Britain’s main advocations has been for mass deportations, a plan which even Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf have labelled a logistical impossibility due to the cost involved, and it is astonishingly easy to imagine a timeline where Rupert Lowe becomes so consumed with this plan that the government’s fiscal capabilities go down the drain, possibly plunging the country into a recession, or at the very least render the government extremely tight-budgeted for the next few years. 

Overall, the policies of Restore Britain and its founder are decried as either incompetently or maliciously thought of by even those who are ideologically closest to them. Lowe has had a relatively successful career as a politician, but with grand ambitions, poor planning, and little to no experience as a statesman, his plan to restore the country may very well end up destroying it.