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The Spectator’s editor Michael Gove and assistant editor Madeline Grant interview Rupert Lowe, MP for Great Yarmouth and notorious Westminster provocateur.
Earlier this year, Lowe was suspended from the Reform party amid claims of threats towards the party’s then-chairman Zia Yusuf, and a souring relationship with Nigel Farage. Following his political ‘assassination’, he now sits as an independent MP and continues to be one of the most energetic parliamentarians in challenging the Westminster orthodoxy.
During the discussion – recorded before Zia Yusuf resigned as party chairman on Thursday – Lowe diagnoses the issues that have blighted Reform and its bid to ‘professionalise’; challenges Michael on the then-Tory government’s mismanagement of an 80-seat majority and its record on Covid; addresses his interview with Emily Maitlis and her questioning on the grooming gangs scandal; but admits, in spite of it all, that he would still prefer Nigel Farage to be Prime Minister over Keir Starmer.
// CHAPTERS
00:00 – Introduction
02:30 – Reform UK’s aims and the failure of party politics
08:45 – Brexit, the 2019 election deal and civil service power
15:10 – The need for repeal and overhauling legislation
25:40 – Expulsion from Reform UK and critique of Farage
35:00 – State overreach, economic decline and immigration
50:30 – Grooming gangs, political cowardice and final thoughts
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