Lowe Accuses Farage Of ‘Outright Lying About Private Conversations’

Rupert Lowe has accused Nigel Farage of “outright lying” about their private conversations.

The Restore Britain leader publicly offered to form an alliance with Reform UK on Sunday in a bid to unite the right.

Farage insisted he has responded to the offer “with an open mind”, telling reporters at a press conference on Monday: “I did actually reach out back yesterday to him. I did say ‘look should we have a call’.

“I haven’t heard back yet so I don’t know what the sincerity of this is.”

He claimed: “It seemed to me that he was sort of more than anything putting out this gesture saying ‘look I am the good guy – Nigel’s the bad guy’. Well that is not the case.”

But Lowe hit back on social media with a screenshot of what appears to be their message exchange.

The MP for Great Yarmouth said: “I do not want to make private conversations public, but Farage has just done so at a national press conference. He just stated he said to me yesterday ‘Shall we have a call?’.

“Sadly, that is just a lie. Yesterday at 10.30 Nigel messaged me, saying the following three words. ‘Will call later’. The evidence is below. I have received no call. Senior Reform figures then went public to rubbish my offer.”

“The offer remains open to Nigel and Reform. Although outright lying about our private conversations does not help that,” Lowe said.

He continued: “For Restore Britain, it will always be country before party – ahead of any personal differences or past disagreements we have. Every single time. The country is more important, and I will always put it ahead of my own interests.”

Lowe was elected as a Reform MP back in 2024 before falling out with Farage and being kicked out of the party.

He then set up his far-right splinter group, Restore Britain, which split support for Reform in both the Makerfield by-election and the Greater Manchester mayoral by-election.

His offer to work together came after Reform lost its lead in the opinion polls for the first time in over a year.

Farage also triggered a by-election in his own constituency of Clacton last month amid heightened scrutiny over his finances.

A probe into a £5 million donation Farage failed to declare to parliament when he won a seat in the 2024 general election is on pause right now but will resume if he wins his seat back.

All major parties have refused to field a candidate in the Clacton contest, calling it a political stunt, meaning the Reform leader’s main opponent is comedy candidate Count Binface.

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