Rupert Lowe
Rupert Lowe | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Leader of Restore Britain | |
| Assumed office 30 June 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Chairman of Great Yarmouth First | |
| Assumed office 1 December 2025 | |
| Leader | Jonathan Wedon |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Brandon Lewis |
| Majority | 1,426 (3.5%) |
| Member of the European Parliament for West Midlands | |
| In office 2 July 2019 – 31 January 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Daniel Dalton |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Rupert James Graham Lowe 31 October 1957 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
| Party | Restore Britain (since 2026) |
Other political affiliations | Conservative (until 1993) Referendum (1997) Reform UK (2019–2021, 2023–2025) Great Yarmouth First (since 2025) |
| Spouse |
Nicola Chapman (m. 1986) |
| Children | 4 |
| Education | University of Reading (BSc) |
| Website | rupertlowe.co.uk |
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Rupert James Graham Lowe (born 31 October 1957) is a British politician who is the leader of the far-right party Restore Britain and has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Great Yarmouth since 2024. Elected for Reform UK, he sat as an independent from March 2025 to March 2026 following the suspension of the party whip. Lowe founded the political organisation Restore Britain on 30 June 2025, and registered it as an official political party on 20 March 2026, becoming the party's sole MP on the same day. He was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands from 2019 to 2020.
Before entering politics, Lowe worked in banking and business and was the chairman of Southampton F.C. from 1996 to 2006 and then from 2008 to 2009, when it entered administration. At the 2019 European Parliament election, Lowe was elected as an MEP for the West Midlands, representing the Brexit Party, which later became Reform UK. He held this role until the UK's withdrawal from the European Union in 2020. Lowe entered the House of Commons at the 2024 general election as MP for Great Yarmouth and was appointed Reform UK's Business and Agriculture Spokesman. In March 2025, he had the whip suspended due to legal accusations, days after criticising Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.