Restore Britain backer claims Jews are foreign as Rupert Lowe faces racism storm | Politics | News

A man who signaled support for Restore Britain has claimed Jews are foreigners and he doesn’t mind people calling him a racist. The party he leads Rupert Lowe He refused to condemn comments made by Steve Laws, who wanted to see it. immigrants and non-white citizens were deported from Britain.

In February, Mr Laws urged his X followers to “get in line” and help the Restore Britain leader “complete the first few stages” of immigration. The far-right activist wrote on X yesterday (May 26) that “the only thing that matters is immigration.” In an interview on Andrew Gold’s Heretics podcast, Mr Laws was asked if he was a racist and replied: “If you want to call me a racist, that doesn’t really bother me at all. My priority is to put my people first. If that makes me a racist, so be it.”

In a discussion about Jews in the UK, Mr Laws told the podcast host, who is Jewish: “You are a foreign ethnic group.”

Arguing that the Jewish people do not belong in this country, he continued: “Total return. Everyone must leave.” Mr Laws also suggested that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was “misunderstood”, casting doubt on how many people were killed in the Holocaust.

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Commenting on Mr Lowe’s party fielding a candidate in the Makerfield by-election, he added: “At first I was skeptical about Restore’s survival (sic), but after seeing all these Reform types essentially demanding our vote and crying when we refused, I took more of the attitude that they can f**k. They don’t deserve our support.”

“We vote for what we believe in. Not what the establishment tells us.”

His comments came amid a row between Mr Lowe and his former colleagues at Reform UK following the announcement that Restore Britain would be based at Makerfield. byelectionGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham represents Labour.

A spokesman for Restore Britain said: Mail: “What Steve Laws says is up to Steve Laws, it has nothing to do with us.”

Asked by the same publication about other far-right activists who support Restore Britain, the spokesperson said: “We have been very clear. We will not police our membership. The membership supports our position, clearly not the opposite.”

A spokesperson for the Campaign Against Antisemitism has called on Restore Britain to “distinguish itself and speak out” at a time when some fringe parties are failing to affirm their positions on antisemitism and extremism.

He added that Jews were not “aliens” and asked what Restore Britain wanted to be: a “seditious protest group” or a “serious political party”.

Meanwhile, a split appears to have begun in Reform UK, with two senior members of the union falling out over deportation policy.

Robert Jenrick said in an interview on Sunday that a foreigner would not face deportation just for living in social housing, but could be deported if he was not working hard enough.

But the party’s home affairs spokesman, Zia Yusuf, publicly opposed Mr Jenrick’s stance in a social media post on Tuesday, saying it was “not a Reform policy”.

Speaking to Sky News, Mr Jenrick said someone born abroad would not be deported “exclusively” for living in social housing.

“If they don’t meet our criteria because they’re not working, or they’re not working too many hours, they’re not making enough money, then they won’t be able to renew their work visa because (indefinite leave to remain) won’t be available and they’ll be asked to leave,” he said.

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In April, Reform promised that if the party came to power it would review all successful asylum claims over the past five years and deport anyone found to have entered illegally or overstayed their visa.

The party estimates that 400,000 people will be involved in the investigation.

The by-election in Makerfield will be held on June 18. The candidates are:

Dan Clarke – Libertarian Party

Alan ‘Howlin’ Laud Hope – Official Monster Crazy Party

Robert Kenyon – UK Reformation

Rebecca Shepherd – Restore Britain

Michael Winstanley – Conservatives