"On a cold night in a dilapidated theatre tucked away at the end of Great Yarmouth's Britannia Pier, Rupert Lowe was launching a far-right revolution. Millions will have to go, the MP said, pledging a policy of mass deportations, to rapturous applause and foot stamping from hundreds gathered for what had been billed as the launch of a local Great Yarmouth First party."
"But after introducing five councillors who will stand at the next Norfolk county council elections under that banner, the former Reform UK figure went further by announcing that his Restore Britain movement would become a national party. In an electoral battlefield littered with failed startups, Lowe's new party is, for now, little more than a pebble in the shoe of Nigel Farage's Reform, from which he parted ways last year after a bitter falling out."
"However, over the weekend other parties and figures to the right of Reform quickly rallied behind the new party. Advance UK, led by former Reform deputy leader Ben Habib and backed by the far-right activist known as Tommy Robinson, said it would consider a merger. Such a force could cost Reform a number of seats and potentially even power, in a wafer-thin general election result by splitting support among those drawn to hard-right anti-immigration populism."
Rupert Lowe launched Restore Britain as a national far-right party at a theatre in Great Yarmouth, pledging mass deportations and recruiting five local councillors under a Great Yarmouth First banner. Lowe split from Reform UK last year after a bitter falling out. Advance UK, led by Ben Habib and backed by Tommy Robinson, signalled it might merge, and other right-wing figures rallied behind the new party. The movement's presence on X is amplified by high-profile accounts and attention from Elon Musk. Political strategists warn that small hard-right challengers could split the Reform vote and cost seats in marginal constituencies.
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