Rupert Lowe claims migrants are 'ogling your children in school'
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Rupert Lowe, ex-Reform UK MP, has had charges against him dropped after claims from former colleagues over bullying allegations and making threats against the party leader. He tells Emily Maitlis why he believes Nigel Farage is running a “cult”, not a political party, and why he has such negative views of migrants.
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In brief…
- Rupert Lowe tells Emily Maitlis that his experience under Metropolitan Police investigation for bullying and making threats has been "disgusting", suggesting the police should be instead focusing on undocumented migrants.
- Lowe claims migrants are getting preferential treatment for medical procedures, "ogling children in school", and falsely claims most grooming gang perpetrators in the UK are of Pakistani origin.
- He claims Nigel Farage is "not fit" to be Prime Minister, and is surrounded by "lightweight" people who are likely to make important political decisions in the pub.
What’s the story?
Rupert Lowe is furious at his former Reform UK colleagues.
He is currently an independent MP, having had the party whip removed in March this year following allegations of bullying and making threats against Reform leader, Zia Yusuf, which were also reported to the Metropolitan Police.
Lowe had publicly questioned Nigel Farage’s ability to lead the party, leading to division between the two.
This week, the Met dropped those charges, with Lowe claiming the accusations brought against him were "sinister", and saying he's still unclear of what those charges were – as police wouldn’t show his lawyers the statements made against him.
“I'm concerned about how many other people are suffering from the same thing," he tells Emily Maitlis on The News Agents, the morning after it was revealed all charges had been dropped.
“I think in a country – where we are packed with illegal migrants who shouldn't be here, and are breaking the law technically, by being here – to then exercise 'lawfare' on the basis of false witness statements against honest tax paying citizens is, frankly, disgusting.”
Rupert Lowe: Nigel Farage is running a 'cult' and is 'surrounded by lightweight people'
Why did Lowe fall out with Nigel Farage?
When still a Reform UK MP, Lowe says he made it clear to Farage he believed the party could win the next general election, but only if they had a plan.
He believed this needed to involve revoking much of what he calls the “malign legislation” brought in by Tony Blair, including the Human Rights Act, the equalities Act, the Supreme Court.
“I said to Nigel, I don't want to be part of this unless we have a shadow cabinet, a plan, policies, and we tell people how we're going to change the way we're governed,” Lowe says.
But Lowe accuses Farage of being somebody who “aggregates power to the centre” - a strategy he disagrees with.
“Nigel’s not fit to be Prime Minister.
“He's running a cult. He's surrounded by lightweight people whose idea of policy is to wander down to the Marquis of Granby, have a pint and then come up with some sort of press conference the following day.
“That's not how it works.”
Lowe says that by removing the whip and reporting him to the Met, Farage and his political allies wanted him out of the political equation.
He puts the “false allegations” down to his fractured relationship with Farage, saying it was an “attempted political assisination by Reform” and an attempt to “undermine his credibility”.
“I have never seen such rank, amateur behaviour from any organisation,” he adds.
Rupert Lowe claims migrants are "ogling" UK school children
Why he believes the Tories can still 'rescue Britain'
Now, it seems as if Lowe has his eye on a future with the Tories – and already has ideas on how to shake the party up.
"I could join the Tory party tomorrow. I talk to all of them all the time, and I think some of them are very good people," he says.
“I think a reformed Tory party with the right leadership is probably the best vehicle that can rescue Britain."
He says he wants to "shed a group of deficient people" from the Tory Party, with the goal of bringing the same sense of "hope" he believes Margaret Thatcher brought in 1979.
"If it reforms itself I think the Tory party is still valid, but it's struggling," Lowe says.
"It's had terrible leadership for quite a long time now."
British people, he adds, now want a "different option".
"They don't want politically correct numpties representing them in Parliament," he adds.
"They don't want people who are virtue-signalling do-gooders."
Lowe believes the British public shares his views on migrants
Whether he remains independent, or ends up on the Tory benches, Lowe certainly won’t be changing his views on migrants – which he has become well known for as his social media presence has grown.
In March 2025, he caused controversy when he called for illegal migrants to be sent to a Scottish island, and "let the midges do their work".
"I said what I said, because I mean it," he says.
"And at the end of the day, if you don't think the British people agree with me, then you're wrong, because they do. They've had enough of it."
He makes unsupported claims that migrants are pushed to the top of waiting lists for medical treatment and dental treatment, and that most people entering the UK illegally are "economic migrants".
"I know the virtue-signaling do-gooders want to feel good about themselves, but if you really want to, go and live next to these people, you go and you have them ogling at your children in school," he says.
"Our state no longer puts the honest, decent, tax paying British citizen at the top of the agenda.
"They have been relegated to a second class citizen, and we are bringing people in here who have contributed nothing, who have come in here illegally, and most of them have been allowed to stay for the simple reason that we are signed up to all these nonsensical international treaties that are meaningless."
He does not give any evidence to support these claims.
Why won't Rupert Lowe denounce all perpetrators of grooming gangs equally?
Why Lowe is ignoring criticism of reviving grooming gangs scandal
Lowe has crowdfunded more than £600,000 to pay for a new inquiry into the Rotherham grooming gangs scandal, after it returned to front pages when high-profile people such as Elon Musk began talking about it on social media.
But Alexis Jay, who conducted a previous inquiry, has said that any new inquiry would simply result in a delay to the recommendations she suggested in 2022, and is still waiting for the government to implement.
Andrew Norfolk, The Times reporter who first helped expose the grooming gangs, previously said that people such as Lowe were "exploiting" victims, and making them relive the trauma of their experience.
Lowe says he refuses to call them grooming gangs, and instead refers to them as "Pakistani rape gangs", claiming 95% of perpetrators of this crime in the are from a certain part of Pakistan.
This is incorrect. White men in grooming gangs outnumber Pakistani suspects by tenfold in the UK.
Undeterred by this fact-check, he insists the money he has crowd-funded to launch a new inquiry shows the "depth of feeling and concern" among British people.
When asked if he is only focusing on Pakistani gangs because he is "racist", Lowe claims he is concentrating on it because it's a "blot on our national history", and states he will do everything he can to ensure he "shames" the government into launching a new inquiry.
He says reluctance to launch a new inquiry is due to a failed attempt at a "multicultural society", which he believes was driven by the "British establishment" and "woke Britain".
"What they're fearful of is admitting that hasn't worked," he says.
"They're equally fearful of the Muslim-bloc vote, which I will ban if we ever get near power. I will ban postal voting.
When pressed he admits "all grooming is bad, and all rape is bad" – not only the ones committed by people from Pakistan.
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