Steve
Laws resigns from Restore – will the nazi faction follow him?
Prominent
neo-nazi activist Steve Laws has quit Restore Britain amid an escalating
confrontation between Rupert Lowe’s conservative supporters and the party’s
ethnonationalist faction
29 August
2026
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Steve
Laws speaks at rally of Patriotic Alternative in Nuneaton this year
Well,
that didn’t take long. Yesterday we wrote that the feud between Restore’s nazi
faction and its conservative wing was erupting into open warfare. And today,
the nazi group’s leader Steve Laws, has announced that he is resigning from the
party.
Laws
posted this afternoon that after “the last few weeks of horrendous decisions
and refusal to defend the membership”, he was “officially resigning from the
party”.
“It has
been one failure after another and at this stage it’s just a humiliation
ritual,” he added.
Steve
Laws announces he’s quitting Restore
Laws is
the leading figure in the hardline faction, repeatedly attacking Restore
figures whom he regarded as insufficiently committed to ethnic nationalism.
Public
clash
Recently
he clashed publicly with Howard Cox, the former Reform and Advance UK figure
whom Lowe appointed as Restore’s transport spokesman.
Laws
demanded that Cox leave the party, telling him that “none of the membership
wants you involved” and threatening to ensure that he was never elected under
the Restore banner.
He
subsequently accused Lowe of “terrible fucking leadership”.
The
immediate trigger for the latest crisis was a speech by Restore spokeswoman
Orla Minihane in which she said that girls from Indian, Pakistani,
Bangladeshi, Somali and other minority backgrounds also needed protection from
sexual exploitation.
Furious
reactions
The
remarks provoked furious reactions from Restore’s neo-Nazi faction. Sam “Zoomer
Historian” Wilkes, a Holocaust-denying antisemite, described Minihane’s
comments as “abysmal horror coal”.
Sam
‘Zoomer’ Wilkes won’t be leaving. Yet…
Wilkes,
however, has posted that while he understands why Laws has quit, he won’t be
leaving himself. Restore is the only thing they have at the moment, he argues.
How long
he will cling to that view remains to be seen.
The other
member of the nazi triad – Cal Barker – has yet to declare his intentions.
Laws’
resignation therefore represents a key moment in the battle over Restore’s
political direction.
Driving
early support
He was
among the far-right activists who helped drive support for Lowe when Restore
was established. They believed they had secured influence at the top of the
party, despite Lowe’s attempts to present a more respectable public face and
his explicit rejection of ethnonationalism.
As Searchlight reported
yesterday, Laws and his allies have been discussing whether to turn Remigration
Now into a more independent organisation, potentially providing the nucleus of
another far-right political project.
Author:
Paul Gale
is a senior Searchlight researcher
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