Restore Britain is a distinct, harder-right breakaway party founded by Rupert Lowe following his split from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Restore Britain is a distinct, harder-right breakaway party founded by Rupert Lowe following his split from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Leadership and Origins

• Restore Britain: Founded in February 2026 by Rupert Lowe after disputes and his eventual departure/suspension from Reform UK. It operates further to the right of Reform and has attracted a mix of disaffected voters, council defectors, and figures from fringe or historic nationalist backgrounds.
• Reform UK: Led by Nigel Farage (with deputy Richard Tice), positioning itself as a broad populist, right-wing party focused on mainstream electoral breakthroughs and sweeping governance changes.

Policy and Ideological Differences

• Immigration & Identity:
• Restore Britain adopts an explicit ethno-nationalist platform, campaigning for absolute net-negative immigration, mass deportations, banning face coverings like the burqa and niqab, and prohibiting religious slaughter methods such as kosher and halal.
• Reform UK focuses heavily on curbing legal and illegal migration—proposing a freezing of non-essential migration, replacing Indefinite Leave to Remain with five-year renewable visas, and establishing a dedicated deportation command for illegal entrants—but does not feature cultural/religious bans like clothing or dietary restrictions in its core platform.
• Social and Cultural Issues:
• Restore Britain advocates for direct public referendums on bringing back the death penalty and seeks major cuts or dismantling of public funding for the BBC.
• Reform UK concentrates its platform primarily on economic populism, lowering taxes, reducing public sector and civil service bloat, scrapping net-zero climate commitments, and overhauling the welfare system to restrict foreign national access, rather than pushing for capital punishment or specific religious/cultural garment bans.