Lowe unleashed: a parliamentarian without a party

In a wide-ranging discussion with Carl Benjamin, Rupert Lowe, now sitting as an independent MP after a very public fall out with Nigel Farage, offers a blistering assessment of the British political landscape, the state of Parliament, and the party that ejected him. Freed from the constraints of Reform, Lowe speaks with a clarity and urgency that many party men can only envy.

Lowe’s expulsion from Reform came amidst swirling allegations of bullying and verbal threats against party chairman Zia Yusuf - allegations later dismissed by the Crown Prosecution Service for lack of evidence. He maintains they were politically motivated, tied to internal disagreements over policy, party direction, and Nigel Farage's leadership. "I got filled with bullet holes from whether it’s the establishment, whether it’s my colleagues at Reform, whoever," he says. "The sanity returns when I walk my crops."

That phrase captures Lowe’s paradox: both blunt and poetic, grounded yet radical. He is deeply traditional in temperament but radical in diagnosis. Britain, he argues, is not suffering from a lack of policy but from a collapse of institutional character. Parliament, once the engine of national self-government, is now overrun by managerial mediocrities and outflanked by a civil service that no longer sees itself as answerable to MPs. "The elected MPs are supposed to be powerful. They should not be frightened of saying what they think."

His critique stretches far beyond Reform. Labour, in Lowe’s view, won a "landslip" on a minority of the vote and is now indulging a post-colonial guilt complex, happy to sign away sovereignty in pursuit of a "socialist European dream." The Tories, meanwhile, are portrayed as a confused muddle of Lib Dem technocrats and broken Thatcherite instincts, adrift without philosophical direction.

Underlying it all is Lowe’s loathing of collectivism. He sees in the administrative state - from HMRC to DEFRA - a bureaucratic apparatus waging quiet war on enterprise, risk-taking, and personal responsibility. The system, he says, is rigged against the individual: “They weaponise the system against people who speak up.”

There is no self-pity here. If anything, Lowe is energised. His dismissal from Reform appears to have liberated his voice. He calls for a "Great Repeal Act" to undo the legislative legacy of Blairism - starting with the Human Rights Act, the Equality Act, and the Supreme Court. And he defends Britain's imperial legacy, not out of nostalgia, but as a rebuttal to the narrative that the nation is a historical stain.

As Westminster drifts, Lowe advances a vision of parliamentary democracy rooted in accountability, sovereignty, and moral seriousness. He is not building a party—not yet. But if he is the warning shot, the real question is: who’s listening?

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