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Reform could face a legal challenge after London Mayoral candidates branded a rival MP a “neonazi”. Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe said on social media that he had “consulted with our legal team” and called on Reform Mayoral candidate Laila Cunningham to “fully withdraw and make a public apology soon”. It comes after Ms Cunningham, 48, appeared on GB News today and slammed Restore Britain, the 68-year-old party Mr Lowe founded last weekend, saying: “If you’re not white and Christian in this country, you’re not British.” He also claimed they were after “some kind of neo-Nazi aryan race.”

Ms Cunningham added: “This contradicts the desire for integration and assimilation, because in their view no matter how integrated and assimilated you are, you will never be British.” Reform declined to comment. A spokesman for Restore Britain denied the allegations and added that calling the party ‘neo-Nazis’ would put them in “serious danger”.

On social media, Mr Lowe wrote: “Reform is just more of the same. Old, tired, party political bulls who have let us all down for years***. Getting around the insults when they can’t handle the arguments. We’ve been going through this for decades. So boring.”

The row comes just days after the launch of the party, which the former Reform MP announced in a video broadcast from his farm. He said at the time: “I have chosen to speak to you from the farm today because places like this are what Britain is all about. Hard work, responsibility, effort, duty, stewardship. This is the England I know and this is the England I love.”

Party insiders say the organization now has more than seventy thousand members, which they claim is “more than the Liberal Democrats”. The Daily Express was unable to independently verify these claims. Restore Britain has seen the departure of 9 councilors in the last two days, 7 in Kent and 2 in Northamptonshire.

Mr Lowe was expelled from Reform last year following a public row with Nigel Farage and other members. Speaking at a media conference yesterday, Mr Farage dismissed concerns that the new party posed a risk to Reform, saying: [Lowe] Do you have a profile on X? Yes like that. Elon? [Musk] Will you support him? Probably. “But you see, when he stands up and says ‘we must consider the mass deportation of entire communities, including those born in the UK’, it goes well beyond the point of reasonableness, decency and decency.”

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Ms Cunningham, a former Conservative councilor for the City of Westminster, has been appointed as the Reform candidate for Mayor of London in 2025. He has been approached for comment. When elected, he vowed to be the “new sheriff in town” as he promised to stand up to criminals in London. When he was accused of being a “right-wing extremist” last year, he described the accusations as attempts to “discredit” or “shut down” the debate.

Mr Lowe has had numerous run-ins with Reform after attracting huge media attention when billionaire Elon Musk said he wanted to see the MP replace Nigel Farage as Reform’s leader. He was later expelled from the party in a separate dispute after being accused of abusive behavior by Reform donor and policy chief Zia Yusuf, a claim Mr Lowe denies.

Today’s fight is the latest in a long series of disputes between the two sides. Mr Farage has previously criticized smaller parties, saying yesterday: “When we last counted there were 11 parties claiming to be on the right or centre-right of British politics, from the Heritage Party to who knows who else. There’s only one correct brand of centre-right politics in this country, it’s called Reform. People think ‘oh, Farage did that, we’ll just set up a party, it’ll be great, we’ll sweep the next election’, it’s just not that easy!”