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Reform's 'attempt to politically assassinate me was a farce', Rupert Lowe claims
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May 28, 2025
Former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has refused to rule out a possible move to the Conservatives after being "politically assassinated" by his former party.Speaking to GB News, Lowe admitted there are "some very able Tories", and that "all options are open" when it comes to where he will go next.FULL STORY HERE.
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Rupert Lowe, we love a plot in politics
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We love a tryst and illicit meeting. You met with Robert Jemrick
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What was on the menu? Well, look, Martin, it's a pleasure to be back
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with my old ex-MEP colleague from the West Midlands. It's been some time since there was an attempted
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political assassination attempt against me which could have landed me in prison with no basis to it
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But anyway, here I am. I'm in rude health. I'm actually enjoying a bit of a parliamentary recess
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getting a dose of reality down in the country and keeping my feet firmly on the ground
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and out of the what I call loony bin of Parliament. But look, I mean, I had lunch with Robert Generic
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probably three months ago at my club, and I simply had lunch with him at his club
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I've always said, since my political assassination, which was very clumsy and arguably somewhat un-Christian
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I have all options open. And I have to confess I was not expecting to be politically taken out
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like a sort of wing forward takes out the scrum half if he can
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But I'm now free. I've got lots of options open to me
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I'm not plotting to do any badness to anybody else. What I'm intent on doing, and I think I've made this clear
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is changing the way Britain's governed by 2029, and I've now got to turn my mind to finding a way to do that
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I personally, having witnessed, having come from the real world and having now witnessed the way Parliament operates
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the way the civil service operates, the way the front bench operates, the way the Labour government is basically surrendering vast tracts
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of British sovereign territory with absolutely, you know, almost with a smile on their faces they speak with forked tongue So I think collectively the British people who care about the country have to now find a solution
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to changing the way we're governed by 2029. And that's what I'm turning my mind to
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So talking to the Tories, I talk to all the Tories a lot. They knew that the attempt to politically assassinate me
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was a farce. OK, Ruben, can we stop dwelling on that, please
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You've made that point now about five times. But rather than being cold-shouldered, Martin
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I've been talking to them. There's some great young Tories. But there aren't concerns of overhang
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And let's talk about what that might look like. You've been quite critical of the Conservatives in the past
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although you are naturally a Conservative by heritage. What is it? Is there anything particular about Robert Jenrick
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that's caught your eye as a kind of man you might like to work with? Well, I think there are some very able Tories
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A lot of them are young. I mean, I've got huge amounts of admiration for Jack Rankin
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for Katie Lamb, some of the young Tories. But there is this overhang of Cameronite, what I call Lib Dems
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So, as I said to Robert, and I think Robert is, he's a bit like a sort of Catholic convert
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He's almost more Catholic than the Catholics now, because he, as you know, voted to remain
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and he did all sorts of things that I wouldn't approve of. But I think we've got to find somehow a collective solution
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And what that means and what I've been trying to do is effectively unite right-wing thought through policy
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And that was my issue. We need policy, Martin. We have to have a plan
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We have to have, if you like, a detailed roadmap to changing the way we're governed
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And that's not going to happen by just what I call shallow rhetoric
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That's got to happen by plan. So I'm now exploring all options
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All options are open, Martin. That's the message
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