Restore Britain

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RESTORE BRITAIN - Rising Far-Right UK Party Led by Scandal-Ridden Rupert Lowe

Uncover the UK’s emerging far-right political party, Restore Britain, and learn how they are actively shifting the political spectrum further right, sowing seeds of hate, and normalising anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Our comprehensive guide offers you in-depth information on their nationalist policies, staunch support for mass deportations, and their controversial initiative to reinstate the death penalty.

Connect with valuable resources exploring their murky party funding, contentious leader Rupert Lowe, and their alarming potential to deepen social and political divisions across the country.

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General Information

Restore Britain originally started as a pressure group in June 2025. They raised money through crowdfunding to influence national policy to end mass migration, ban religious face coverings, promote a pro-British education system, and restore traditional Christian values.

They also ran independent investigations into child sexual exploitation and grooming gangs, which focused on the role of immigration and race in cases. They attempted to connect the root cause to immigration and minority ethnic groups. It was heavily criticised for oversimplifying a complex issue, inflaming tensions, and using unverified data sets.

Former businessman and banker and Reform UK politician Rupert Lowe officially registered Restore Britain as a political party on 13 February 2026, becoming the party's sole MP.

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Restore Britain Leader - Rupert Lowe

Lowe's career began at various banks in London, and later he founded a company that operated nursing homes. In the mid-1990s, football team Southampton reached out to Lowe to help them list the club on the London Stock Exchange. Using his company, Lowe became chairman of the club. He eventually resigned in 2006 after mounting pressure from supporters.

He was a long-time member of the Conservative Party but left and began exploring alternatives. In 2019, he became a member of parliament for the West Midlands representing the Brexit Party, now renamed Reform UK.

He held this position for one year and did not return to politics until 2023, when he became the Business and Agriculture Spokesman for Reform UK. Then in 2024, under Reform, he was back in Parliament, this time for Great Yarmouth.

He was later suspended in March 2025 for complaints of severe workplace bullying and alleged threats of physical violence. Lowe was never charged, and he denied all accusations. The suspension came just days after he criticised leader Nigel Farage, and he has since labelled the suspension a smear campaign.

In his time as the leader of Restore Britain, he has remained a highly controversial figure. He faces widespread criticism for making racist comments on minority communities, for opposing multiculturalism, and for using loopholes to avoid declaring the origin of party donations.

In May 2026, he lost a High Court bid to block a probe by the formal parliamentary watchdog into his conduct.

“It’s time to call out Rupert Lowe, the leader of Restore, a deluded egotist who is toxifying British politics, fanning the fires of racial and religious strife…” - Allister Heath in his recent Telegraph article.

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Key Policies & Ideology

The policies of Restore have been described as even further to the right of Nigel Farage's Reform UK.

“Mass immigration, economic collapse, woke ideology, and the relentless creep of radical Islam – everywhere you look, this country is in decline.” - Restore Britain.

Their slogans are designed to instil fear and spread hatred and division. They advocate for an ethno-nationalist revolution to restore the country's ‘ethnic and cultural identity’. This goal dangerously rejects multiculturalism and defines British identity as purely ancestral and Christian. It is a hardline stance with strong facets of racism, fascism, and nationalism.

Below we list some of their policies:

• Mass Deportations & Immigration Caps: In a process they call ‘reverse immigration’, Restore plans to remigrate illegal migrants and deport foreign-born citizens who claim benefits or cannot speak English.
• Welfare & Rights: Restricting voting rights and welfare exclusively to native-born British citizens.
• British Interests First: Dramatic scaling back of foreign aid. Abolish diversity, equity, and inclusion targets.
• The Housing Crisis: Restore says we do not have a housing crisis, but a population crisis. Their solution is mass deportations.
• Fossil Fuel Investment: Under the claim that affordable energy makes nations rich, they would lift the ban on North Sea oil and gas exploration.
• Abolish the Climate Change Act: To lower energy prices in the short term.
• Health: Repeal the assisted dying bill and roll back abortion rights.
• British Christian Values: Promote Christianity within Britain’s legal system, literature, art, culture, architecture, and institutions.
• Burqa and Niqab Bans: Simply because they are, in Restore’s words, ‘un-British’
• LGBTQI+ Rights: Repeal the Gender Recognition Act, which allows individuals to change their sex by law, enforcing biological sex on legal documents.
• Harsher Policing: They support bringing back the controversial Stop and Search policy, legalising pepper spray, and introducing the death penalty.
• The Right To Self-Defence: Opening up a can of worms for misinterpretation and vague criteria for what is considered fairly protecting yourself.
• Voting Laws: Remove the right to postal voting, thereby suppressing thousands of votes from those unable to attend polling stations.

Restore Britain attempts to blame immigrants for most of the UK’s problems. They even make ridiculous claims, such as being able to prevent hosepipe bans by reducing immigration. Whilst some of their policies, such as lowering taxes and encouraging abled-bodied Britons back to work, are common sense, others seem impractical, and some are downright dangerous.

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Support From The Far Right

Ethno-nationalist policies typical of right and radical right-wing UK parties have somehow made their way into the political mainstream. Restore are setting a new precedent in modern British politics and are becoming an increasingly dangerous role model.

Restore Britain also has the backing of the world's richest man, Elon Musk, who likes to meddle in politics around the world and spread his ideologies to his 241 million followers. Under Musk’s wing, the message of Restore has spread far and wide.

HOPE Not Hate, the British movement pushing back against hate and far-right extremists, has reported that numerous high-profile organisers of fascist and neo-Nazi groups are active members of Restore. Attracted by their hardline immigration policies, Restore are linked to groups such as Blood & Honour, Patriotic Alternative, Remigration Now, the National Front, and Homeland Party.

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Analysts say that people with extremist opinions believe that they can steer Restore to achieve their own goals. It is no secret that members of neo-Nazi-groups and white supremacists have pledged their financial support to the party. There are concerns that extreme individuals may try to use Restore to launch their own careers in local politics.

“Restore has united Britain’s ethnonationalists to an extent unseen since the demise of the BNP.” - Spokesperson for HOPE not Hate.

So far, seven ex-Reform UK councillors have defected to Restore, some of whom were expelled from the party. Three former Conservative members have also jumped ship.

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Divided Public Opinion

Restore Britain claims to have 130,000 members, making it one of the fastest-growing parties in the UK. If we compare that to the currently in power Labour Party's membership of 250,000, this is no small feat.

The party's launch coincided with widespread anti-immigration protests in several major UK cities and a general rise in right-wing and anti-immigrant sentiment.

They are working hard to expand local branches across constituencies and rally up local support around the country. In June 2026, they took part in their first parliamentary by-election in Makerfield with candidate Rebecca Shepherd. She took 6.8% of the vote, finishing third of six candidates.

Across the nation, polls show that support for the party averages between 3% and 9%. The wider electorate views their policies unfavourably.

Tensions with Reform UK currently threaten to derail their efforts and prevent any unified right-wing opposition to the major parties.

Outside of right-wing pockets of support, mainstream UK public opinion is deeply critical of the party's extreme positions. Their rising popularity, however, should not be ignored. We must not allow for hardline, racist, or extreme policies to become normalised in the British political landscape.

Author: Rachael Mellor, 07.08.26, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0