In This Episode
The Spectator’s editor, Michael Gove, and assistant editor, Madeline Grant, interview Rupert Lowe, MP for Great Yarmouth and notorious Westminster provocateur. Earlier this year, Lowe was suspended from the Reform party amid claims of threats towards the party’s chairman, Zia Yusuf and a souring relationship with Nigel Farage. Following his political ‘assassination’, he now sits as an independent MP and continues to be one of the most energetic parliamentarians in challenging the Westminster orthodoxy.
During the discussion – recorded before Zia Yusuf stepped down as party chairman on Thursday – Lowe diagnoses the issues that have blighted Reform and its bid to ‘professionalise’; challenges Michael on his government’s mismanagement of an 80-seat majority, and its record on Covid; addresses the Emily Maitlis interview and her questioning on the grooming gangs scandal; but admits, in spite of it all, he would still prefer Nigel Farage to be Prime Minister over Keir Starmer.
Watch the interview in full on Spectator TV.
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