Does Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain threaten to erode the Reform UK vote share in the Makerfield byelection?
“Restore [Britain] have positioned themselves as a harder-line alternative to Reform,” says Daniel Trilling, journalist and author of If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable. “They’re pushing for an even more extreme policy of deportations for unauthorised migrants, but the rhetoric around that, I think, is quite shockingly extreme as well.
“Launching Restore Britain as a political party, Rupert Lowe said millions must go.”
If Restore Britain are successful in taking votes from Reform in Makerfield, what would that mean for the future of Farage’s party and wider UK politics?
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