Nigel Jones

Rupert Lowe won’t be the last to fall out with Nigel Farage

Reform MP for Great Yarmouth Rupert Lowe has fallen out with Nigel Farage (Getty images)

It was so predictable as to be almost inevitable: a massive row has erupted within the leadership of Reform UK. Rupert Lowe, one of Reform’s five MPs and the Member for Great Yarmouth – an outspoken keyboard warrior on social media and popular with many grassroots party members for his outspoken online comments – kicked off the row after he launched an open criticism of party founder and leader Nigel Farage.

In an interview with the Daily Mail, Lowe, a millionaire businessman, said Reform was still a ‘protest party’ and that it was an open question about whether his ‘messianic’ leader would ‘deliver the goods’ and become prime minister. He suggested that Farage would only do so if he surrounded himself with the ‘right people’. No prizes for guessing that in Lowe’s mind he is one of those people.

This clash between them was as predictable as the certainty that the sun will rise every morning

Farage hit back immediately by saying that Lowe’s criticism was ‘utterly and completely wrong’, claiming that under his leadership Reform was far more than a party of protest.

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