The far right are promoting Restore – and undermining Nigel Farage ...Middle East

In online chat groups, white nationalists, neo-Nazis and far-right activists are fired up. Those normally indifferent or outright hostile to parliamentary politics are putting their hope in Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain.

His online popularity has earned Lowe a vocal group of supporters from across Britain that means Restore is now seen as a genuine threat to Nigel Farage and Reform UK. In Makerfield, it could cost the party the by-election, some observers believe.

But among Restore’s followers are far-right activists, mobilising on social media. Even competing extremist factions are showing rare unity in giving their backing.

At least three rival far-right political parties have declared support for Restore, with one leader hailing Lowe as “the saviour of this nation”.

Several high profile activists, including white nationalists who have been banned from entering the UK on security grounds, have been praising Restore to their millions of online followers – in particular its central call for “mass deportations”. One voiced hope that Restore would “terraform the whole political environment in the UK”, while another described Lowe as a “great man”.

And in informal online chat groups, neo-Nazis are debating whether they can overlook Restore’s employment of former Conservative MP Scott Benton, who is gay and was previously a member of the Conservative Friends of Israel, in order to “vote for the most destructive candidate” in their quest to undermine Britain’s political system.

Lowe and the Restore Britain party have previously vigorously denied association with neo-Nazism or racism.

Challenging mainstream politics

Reform still holds a healthy lead in national polling, with recent BMG polling for The i Paper putting Farage’s party eight points ahead of Labour. But Restore is seen as a genuine threat to the electoral success of Reform UK and a challenge to mainstream politics, gaining support from disaffected voters angry about the Government’s failure to tackle illegal immigration.

This has become most evident during campaigning for the upcoming by-election in Makerfield, where some voters have become dissatisfied with Reform, believing that Farage – who has welcomed a number of former Conservative cabinet members to his party in recent months – has become a part of the political establishment he claims to abhor.

But at the other end of Restore’s fan base sits right wing extremists, sharing their backing in online chat groups.

It is unclear whether the wave of far-right support for Restore is having an impact inside Makerfield, but some activists have said they previously campaigned for the party in Great Yarmouth ahead of last month’s local elections, which saw nine councillors elected representing the Restore offshoot Great Yarmouth First.

That result was hailed as a “symbolic battle” by Martin Sellner, an Austrian white nationalist leader who was banned from entering the UK in March 2018 on national security grounds. A year later, Sellner was investigated by counter-terror police over his online conversations with the terrorist who massacred 51 Muslims in an attack on two mosques in New Zealand.

Sellner has denied any link to the attacker and said at the time: “I have nothing to do with this terror attack.” He was not charged with any offence and has remained a high-profile figure on the European far right, who he is now calling on to emulate Restore.

“The hype is real – and it’s not just working online,” he wrote in a social media post on 8 May. “Other right-wing parties need to watch and learn.”

Following reporting by The Mail on Sunday that Restore activists attended a “remigration summit” hosted by Sellner’s current organisation in Portugal last month, Lowe wrote on X that the story was part of a “deranged hate campaign against Restore Britain,” adding: “We are going to win. We are going to mass deport. We are going to get our country back.”

Restore did not respond to The i Paper‘s questions on whether it welcomes support from extremist figures and groups, and if it would contest how they are presenting the party’s position.

Sellner has voiced hope that Restore will “shift the entire political discourse in Britain to the right” and normalise calls for “remigration” – the mass deportation of non-white migrants.

Support for ‘mass deportations’

A Restore document detailing its “mass deportations” policy did not outline plans on explicitly racial lines but set a series of aims that would have a disproportionate impact on non-white people, including “abolishing the asylum system” and “working to remove from Britain every single illegal immigrant”. The document said refugees should remain in “their continent of origin” and referred to migrants as “invaders”.

Several extremist groups have read the policy to align with their concept of “remigration”, including Britain First. In a video in February, leader Paul Golding said he would not run candidates against Restore in any elections because he sees the party as “complimentary” to Britain First’s aims.

“We’re all pushing in the direction of remigration, mass deportations and saving this country,” he added.

Golding, who was jailed for religiously aggravated harassment targeting Muslims in 2018, has shared numerous social media posts in support of Restore and last month directed a lengthy public message to Lowe in which he called himself “a friend and an admirer”.

“You have the full support of the entire patriotic movement right now,” Golding wrote, saying that if Lowe pursued mass deportations he would “become the saviour of this nation”.

Splitting the vote in Makerfield

Some far-right activists have raised concern that Restore will hand Labour victory in the Makerfield by-election by drawing votes away from Reform, and urged people to vote tactically.

But the Britain First leader dismissed those concerns in a post on 24 May, calling Reform an “establishment safety valve” that “deserve to lose”. In an entreaty to his followers, Golding added: “If you are a proud white man and you want to engage in electoral politics etc, join Restore Britain.”

Mark Collett, founder of the white nationalist Patriotic Alternative group and a former British National Party official, has raised concerns that Restore will assist an Andy Burnham victory in the Makerfield by-election rather than “speeding the decline of the anti-white system”.

But he praised Lowe on 9 June, saying he was “really pushing the Overton window” on the public discourse over migration.

Pointing to X posts where the Restore leader described the Belfast knife attacker as a “savage” who should be “put to death” and described immigrants from some countries as “barbarians” and “monsters”, Collett said using those terms publicly “would previously have been grounds for a visit from the police or Prevent”.

In a separate post to his followers, Collett said that Restore’s mass deportations paper “legitimises everything ethno-nationalists have said post Second World War”.

Sid Venkataramakrishnan, an analyst who has been tracking the online reaction to Restore at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, said there had been a “striking use of terms” by the party which echo far-right language and talking points.

“There’s a sense that, in a way that Farage was seen not to, Lowe seems to talk the talk and walk the walk,” he said.

“The aesthetics and the general vibes of Restore are much more in line with what these groups want, and they certainly seem to see it as the best hope for achieving ‘remigration’ and prosecuting their agendas.”

Mr Venkataramakrishnan said there may be a “gulf of expectation” between the far right’s hopes for Restore and what the party can achieve in the short term, adding that “the current state of alliances may well change before other elections”.

But he said that the reaction to the murder of Henry Nowak and the stabbing in Belfast last week was adding to the energy around Restore.

“Events like this can reshape political environments quite fast,” Mr Venkataramakrishnan said. “It could well push more people in favour of Restore.”

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