Storm in a cup of tea or symptom of a deeper crisis? Reform UK, the British far right party chaired by Nigel Farage, who has ahead of the conservatives and even the Labor, in power, in the polls in early 2025, has crossed an area of turbulence since March 7, Nigel Farage, his leader and founder, excluded from the party one of his colleagues, Rupert Lowe, deputy like him.
Mr. Lowe, a businessman who was a brief European deputy (in 2019 and 2020) before being elected in July 2024 in the House of Commons, was accused by Mr. Farage and his entourage of having threatened physically to the president of the Reform UK party, Zia Yusuf. The latter claims to have also received complaints for harassment of people working in the parliamentary team of Mr. Lowe. The latter's conduct was reported to the police.
Pending the result of a police investigation just launched, Mr. Lowe refutes all the allegations against him and claims to be a victim of a witch hunt. It is true that his party bench intervened just after he declared, in the columns of Daily Mailthat Reform UK was “A protest party” with a leader at his head “Messianic”. Mr. Farage would need “Good people around him” To be more effective at the head of the movement, he added.
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Source: Lemonde