Restore Britain is a right-wing political party in the United Kingdom, led by Rupert Lowe, the MP for Great Yarmouth.

Originally launched as a pressure group and political movement on 30 June 2025, Lowe announced its transition to a registered political party in February 2026.

The party serves as an electoral challenger to Reform UK on the right, positioning itself as a harder-line alternative. Commentators, noting the party’s strict anti-immigration focus and socially conservative agenda, have referred to Restore as “far right”.

House of Commons representation: The party holds a single seat in parliament, occupied by Lowe following his split from Reform UK.

Who is the leader of Restore Britain?

Rupert Lowe serves as the founder and leader of the party.

Prior to his parliamentary career, Lowe spent decades in the financial sector within the City of London. He gained national prominence in the sporting world as the chairman of Southampton Football Club, presiding over the club across two separate stints between 1996 and 2009.

He stood as a candidate for the Referendum Party in 1997 and successfully secured a seat as a Brexit Party member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2019. He also stood as the Reform UK candidate in the 2024 Kingswood by-election, finishing in third place. At the time, he was Reform UK’s business and agriculture spokesperson.

Lowe was subsequently elected to the House of Commons at the 2024 general election as the MP for Great Yarmouth. He secured a majority of 1,426 over the Labour candidate, Keir Cozens, in second place.

Lowe’s relationship with Reform UK ended contentiously in March 2025.

In March 2025, the party leadership accused Lowe of bullying staff and making verbal threats against Zia Yusuf, the Reform chairman. The party announced it had referred the matter to the police. The explosive allegations were made just one day after Lowe had publicly criticised Farage in a Daily Mail interview. Lowe, who had been touted as future Reform leader by tech tycoon Elon Musk, argued Reform needed a “proper plan”, more policy and official spokespeople.

In a joint statement by Yusuf and Reform’s chief whip, Lee Anderson, they said they were “obligated to disclose that the party received complaints from two female employees about serious bullying” in Lowe’s offices. Lowe immediately denied the allegations, describing them as “entirely untrue”. He claimed the accusations were a fabrication, orchestrated by the party leadership in response to his challenge to Farage’s authority.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) later announced that no charges would be brought against Lowe.

Lowe later announced the formation of Restore Britain as a new political organisation.

What does Restore Britain stand for?

Restore Britain promotes a stridently nationalist, socially conservative and economically libertarian agenda.

The party’s stated objectives include reversing mass migration.

Lowe argues that demographic changes are unacceptable and has pledged to reverse immigration trends.

Restore’s official literature states: “Mass immigration has been a disaster for Britain. It has left us poorer, less safe, and less culturally and socially cohesive. By 2030 native British births will account for fewer than 50% of total births in Britain. By 2070, native Brits will be an absolute minority.

“In order to avert this, Restore Britain will reverse mass immigration. If a legally resident foreign national is unable to speak English, lives in social housing, claims benefits, refuses to work, fails to integrate, commits crime or actively hates our way of life and wishes to do us harm, they will be deported.”

The party adds: “If that means millions go, then millions go.”

Restore has also called for the abolition of the asylum system and all indefinite leave to remain (ILR) benefits.

The party’s policy dictates that any foreign national who covers up or enables abuse would face automatic deportation, stating: “If a foreign national mother, sister, or wife knew about the abuse and failed to report it, they will be treated as accessories and stripped of any right to remain.”

Restore advocates the abolition of inheritance tax. A Restore Britain policy paper argues that abolishing the tax would ensure “that the wealth created by hard-working Britons can be passed on to their loved ones rather than confiscated by the state.”

The party calls for the Equality Act 2010 to be repealed in full.

Restore generally embraces a so-called “anti-woke” agenda.

It has called for the BBC to be defunded, the niqab to be banned in public spaces, halal and kosher slaughter methods to be prohibited, a referendum on the death penalty, and legalising pepper spray for self-defence.

Restore Britain membership

Following its official transition to a political party, the organisation claimed a massive surge in public support.

In February 2026, party officials stated that Restore membership had reached 100,000 individuals.

Emergence of Restore Britain: a short history

The creation of Restore Britain was a direct consequence of the internal fracturing within Reform UK during early 2025.

The 2024 general election resulted in a historic breakthrough for Reform UK. The party secured five MPs in Farage (Clacton), Richard Tice (Boston and Skegness), Anderson (Ashfield), Lowe (Great Yarmouth), and James McMurdock (South Basildon and East Thurrock).

In early March 2025, Lowe expressed severe criticisms of Farage. In a Daily Mail interview, Lowe condemned the governance of Reform UK and warned Farage’s influence had become “messianic”.

Asked if Farage would make a good prime minister, Lowe said: “It’s too early to know whether Nigel will deliver the goods. He can only deliver if he surrounds himself with the right people.

“Nigel is a fiercely independent individual and is extremely good at what we have done so far. He has got messianic qualities. Will those messianic qualities distill into sage leadership? I don’t know.”

The comments came after Lowe had been touted as a future Reform leader by tech tycoon Elon Musk. At the time, Lowe backed Farage “to continue to hold this incompetent Labour party to account”.

Farage initially described Lowe’s Daily Mail interview as “utterly completely wrong”. Addressing one of Lowe’s central criticisms, the Reform leader argued that “you can’t really have a shadow cabinet” with only five people.

Farage stated: “We’ve got a lot of development to do but we’re absolutely not a protest party.”

The following day, 7 March, Reform UK suspended Lowe and reported him to the police.

Zia Yusuf and Reform’s chief whip, Lee Anderson, said in a statement: “Mr Lowe has on at least two occasions made threats of physical violence against our party chairman. Accordingly, this matter is with the police.”

Lowe immediately denied the allegations, describing them as “entirely untrue”. He claimed the accusations were a fabrication and that he had been “frozen out” by the Reform leadership.

The MP stated: “Allegations of physical threats are outrageous and entirely untrue. I have never made any derogatory comments about women, or those with disabilities. This is a lie. These allegations are not even referring to me. I will be seeking legal advice immediately.

“There is no credible evidence against me”.

He added: “I have been pushing for this behind the scenes for many months, with zero success. I have been frozen out of meetings, policy discussions, press conferences and more. My repeated requests for better communication and regular meetings have been ignored and mocked.”

The war of words escalated between Lowe and the Reform leadership over the following weeks. On 20 March, the newly independent MP declared that Farage “must never be prime minister”.

Lowe said: “For the good of our country, Nigel Farage must never be prime minister. To the millions of decent Reform supporters – you must do what you believe is right. I, personally, could not remain in an organisation led by such men. They do not deserve your support, your time, your energy, your money or your vote.”

An investigation carried out by a KC hired by Reform UK, which reported in late March, concluded that the claims of bullying and harassment made against Lowe were credible. “There is veracity in the complaints from both women which amounts [to] credible evidence”, Jacqueline Perry KC, a senior barrister, found.

Lowe, responding in a lengthy statement, dismissed the witness statements as “filled with hearsay, and outright lies based on zero evidence”.

He added: “Reform has deployed woke HR lawfare to smear not only my name, but the reputation of my innocent and decent staff – going as far as to publicly name them. Unprecedented wickedness. It is truly despicable behaviour. I am ashamed to have been part of such a rotten organisation.”

In April, a lawyer hired by Lowe said the investigation was “fundamentally flawed, unfair, and influenced by political motivations”.

The lawyer stated: “In addition to being unfair to Mr Lowe, the sequence of events which led up to provision of the report to the party gives rise to real questions as to the extent to which the KC conducted the investigation independently of the influence of the party.”

In May 2025, the CPS confirmed that Lowe would not have charges brought against him.

Malcolm McHaffie, head of the CPS’ Special Crime Division, said: “Following a thorough and detailed review of the evidence in relation to an allegation of threats, we have decided that no criminal charges should be brought against a sitting MP.

“Having considered a number of witness statements, we have concluded that there is insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction.

“The Crown Prosecution Service’s function is not to decide whether a person is guilty of a criminal offence, but to make fair, independent, and objective assessments about whether it is appropriate to present charges for a criminal court to consider. Based on the careful consideration of this evidence, we have decided that our legal test for a criminal prosecution has not been met.”

On 30 June 2025, Lowe launched Restore Britain, solidifying his split with Reform. The group’s advisory board included senior Tory figures such as Conservative MP Gavin Williamson and former London mayoral candidate Susan Hall.

On 13 February 2026, Lowe announced that Restore Britain would transition from a pressure group into a national political party.

Restore stood a candidate in the June 2026 Makerfield by-election.

Restore selected Rebecca Shepherd, a 53-year-old local businesswoman, as its candidate. During the by-election campaign, Elon Musk shared a social media post from Lowe with the caption: “Restore Britain”. Both Labour and Reform activists noted an uptick in support for Restore on the doorstep as the campaign progressed.

Reform won a total of 15,696 votes (34.5%), while Shepherd and Restore Britain received 3,111 votes (6.8%). Andy Burnham, the Labour candidate, was elected with a resounding 24,927 votes (54.8%) and a majority of 9,231.

Responding to the result, Farage issued a plea for Restore voters to back Reform as the main “challenger party to the left”.

In a video posted to social media, Farage said: “In many ways, he’s a popular local mayor, just as Boris Johnson was a popular mayor in London just a few years ago. But what really happened here is it was ‘vote Burnham, get Starmer out’.”

He added: “There’s a couple of thousand voters there who would normally have gone out and voted Reform, that voted Restore. And I would say directly to them, what do you want?

“We are the challenger party to the left in this country. And I would urge you to think again, I really, really would.”