While Nigel Farage’s Reform party has seen success in the local elections this month, their former MP Rupert Lowe has received a bit of good news himself. It transpires that the Greater Yarmouth politician will not face criminal charges in relation to an allegation of threats towards the party’s chairman Zia Yusuf – with Lowe taking to Twitter to blast the party’s ‘brutal smear campaign’ in a statement on the matter this morning. He’s certainly pulling no punches now…
Lowe was suspended in March after Yusuf and chief whip Lee Anderson announced they had referred their former colleague to the police over ‘threats of physical violence’, while reports emerged that the Met Police had launched an investigation into the parliamentarian. Today, head of the Crown Prosecution Service Malcolm McHaffie said that the CPS made the decision not to press charges after a ‘thorough and detailed review of the evidence’. He added: ‘Having considered a number of witness statements, we have concluded that there is insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction.’
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