The inevitable splits on the hard right have begun with, first, Ben Habib, Nigel Farage’s former deputy at Reform UK, announcing he was launching a new party, Advance UK. Having learned from the master, Advance is not actually registered with the Electoral Commission, as is usually the case, but incorporated as a private company limited by guarantee – just like Reform.
Now another former Reformer, Rupert Lowe – the MP booted out by Farage after publicly criticising the Dear Leader – has launched what looks an awful lot like a new party, Restore Britain. It describes itself as a new political organisation that promises to “carpet-bomb the cancer of wokery.”
Its initial raft of policies, which it says will be voted on by members at some
point in the future, include the complete abolition of the right to claim asylum in the UK under any circumstances, Trump-style “mass deportations” of illegal immigrants, plus the large-scale “departure” – through unspecified means – of “legal migrants”.
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Given that mass emigration through the removal of millions of existing legal residents seems a little extreme – and not yet Conservative Party policy – it was surprising to see Susan Hall, a member of the London Assembly and Tory candidate for the 2024 mayoral election, join Restore Britain’s advisory board. Other policies include the banning of face coverings such as the burqa, the reintroduction of the death penalty and the restoration of “Christian principles” to the UK.
“Restore Britain is not a political party, and I have been clear with Rupert Lowe that should it go in a direction away from what I believe, I will no longer be involved – I am a Conservative, I have been a Conservative all my life, and I will remain a Conservative,” Hall explains. “There is no room in my life for another political party, or organisations against our party.”
Is that going to be enough to stop her being kicked out of the Tories? Over to you, Kemi Badenoch…
