Rupert Lowe is the Restore Britain MP for Great Yarmouth, having first been elected to parliament at the 2024 general election.

In the 2024 general election, Lowe (standing for Reform UK) won 14,385 votes, representing 35.3% of the vote. The Labour candidate, Keir Cozens, received 12,959 votes (31.8%), while the Conservative candidate, James Clark, secured 10,034 votes (24.6%). Lowe was duly elected with a majority of 1,426 votes.

The Great Yarmouth constituency is located in Norfolk, in the East of England. Historically a marginal seat between Labour and the Conservatives, it was held by the Conservatives from 2010 to 2024.

Lowe’s immediate predecessor as the MP for Great Yarmouth was Brandon Lewis of the Conservative Party. Lewis, who stood down at the 2024 election, was first elected to represent the seat in 2010.

Political Career

Lowe is the founder and leader of Restore Britain. Originally launched as a pressure group and political movement on 30 June 2025, Lowe announced Restore’s transition to a registered political party in February 2026.

Lowe is also a member of the House of Commons public accounts committee (since October 2025). The PAC is the oldest and arguably one of the most powerful select committees in the House of Commons. Its primary function is to scrutinise the value for money of public spending, ensuring taxpayers’ money is spent wisely. First established in 1857, the committee does not examine the merits of government policy, only the cost and effectiveness of its implementation.

Lowe was appointed to the public accounts committee after being selected by the Conservative Party, with the Great Yarmouth MP taking one of three Conservative-allocated seats. At the time of his appointment, Lowe said he would use “opportunity to directly scrutinise senior figures from across the public sector on how your tax is being spent”.

Lowe’s Restore Britain 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”.

Following its official transition to a political party, Restore claimed a massive surge in public support. In February 2026, party officials stated that Restore membership had reached 100,000 individuals.

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

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 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”.

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.

Lowe delivered his House of Commons maiden speech on 9 September 2024 during a debate on sanctions on Russia.

In it, he said: “Uncontrolled mass immigration has failed Great Yarmouth, as it has failed the entire country…

“Great Yarmouth has a long history of proudly welcoming immigrants who come to the UK to work hard, integrate properly and contribute to the economy. The current chaos could not be further from that. We have local people, particularly women, feeling unsafe in their own town.”

He added: “I fear that people in Britain will not understand the damaging reality of socialism until they have experienced it. The only difference between this government and the last is that they may be more honest about what they intend to inflict on the British people.

“The political system serves nobody but itself. It is arrogant, out of touch and incompetent…

“The election of five Reform party MPs, including me, is a politically seismic event in our two-party state. We are just getting started and the winds of change are blowing much harder.”

Lowe previously served as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands from July 2019 to January 2020. He represented the Brexit Party, which later rebranded as Reform UK.

Lowe, a long-standing eurosceptic, was previously a member of the Conservative Party until 1993. He stood unsuccessfully as the Referendum Party candidate for The Cotswolds in the 1997 general election and contested the Kingswood by-election for Reform UK in February 2024.

At the time of the 2024 Kingswood by-election, Lowe was Reform UK’s business and agriculture spokesperson.

Political Views

Lowe’s 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 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, which generally embraces an “anti-woke” agenda, calls for the Equality Act 2010 to be repealed in full.

Restore 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.

As an MP, Lowe has tabled a series of early day motions (EDMs) to outline his position and test levels of parliamentary support on a range of contentious issues. His motion calling for the mass deportation of illegal migrants (EDM #1142), tabled April 2025, and another concerning the imprisonment of Lucy Connolly (EDM #1302), tabled May 2025, attracted a small but notable group of signatories from different parties.

The former EDM expressed “grave concern at the continued presence of over one million illegal migrants in the United Kingdom” and urged the government to “implement a comprehensive national strategy to identify, detain, and deport all individuals found to be residing in the United Kingdom illegally, and to ensure that such policies are backed by the necessary legislative, diplomatic, logistical and financial resources to restore confidence in the rule of law and the security of our borders.”

It was signed by 18 mostly Conservative MPs – including former cabinet minister Sir Gavin Williamson, and ex-minister and notable backbench organiser Sir John Hayes.

The EDM concerning the imprisonment of Lucy Connolly received 10 signatories, with some considerable and potentially significant overlap. Conservative MPs Williamson, Peter Bedford, Andrew Rosindell and Lewis Cocking were signatories to both EDM #1142 and EDM #1302.

Lowe’s motion calling for a ban on full-face coverings in public spaces (EDM #1444), tabled June 2025, attracted just one other signatory.

Brexit and Europe

Customs union vote (2025): In December 2025, Lowe voted against the UK-EU Customs Union (Duty to Negotiate) Bill. The bill, introduced under the 10-minute rule procedure by Liberal Democrat Europe spokesperson Al Pinkerton, sought to mandate the government to enter into negotiations with the European Union to establish a bespoke customs union.

Assisted dying

Lowe voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, better known as the assisted dying bill, at second reading (November 2024). However, they went on to vote against the bill at third reading (June 2025).

In a statement issued after the bill’s third reading, Lowe said: “Having followed [the bill’s] evolution closely, the entire process has been bastardised. I’ve come to one conclusion – I do not trust the British state to get this right.”

Lowe was one of 14 MPs to oppose the bill at third reading having supported it at second reading.

Before Politics

Born in Oxford on 31 October 1957, Lowe attended Dragon School and Radley College.

He studied at the University of Reading.

Lower initially pursued a career in finance in the City of London, working for firms including Morgan Grenfell, Deutsche Bank and Barings Bank.

Lowe founded Secure Retirements, which ran nursing homes, and then led a reverse takeover of Southampton Football Club in 1996. The group was renamed Southampton Leisure Holdings plc.

Lowe served as chairman of Southampton FC from 1996 to 2006 and again from 2008 to 2009.

During his first tenure, the club moved to St Mary’s Stadium and reached the 2003 FA Cup final. The club was then relegated from the Premier League in 2005.

Southampton Leisure Holdings was placed into administration in 2009.

Personal Life

Lowe is married and has four children.

Trivia

Upon his election to parliament in 2024, Lowe pledged to donate his entire MP salary to a different local charity or worthy cause each month.