"You're going to SPLIT the Right!" | David Starkey Talks... to RESTORE BRITAIN founder Rupert Lowe
February 20, 2026
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as posted by the channelAs soon as I heard that my friend Rupert Lowe was turning his Restore movement into a political party, I knew we needed to discuss the move. Another political party on the Right of British politics is precisely the thing I have been arguing against since the election in 2024. The last thing we need is to splinter the small-C conservative vote and allow some monstrous Left-wing coalition, possibly including Zack Polanski's Green Party, to return to government.
Nonetheless, in the tradition of British parliamentary politics, it's important to discuss these things openly and respectfully, which of course Rupert and I did. I found it interesting when he told me that the impetus for turning Restore into a political party came from his rape gangs inquiry, and the insight he says it has given him into just how corrupt the British state really is.
However I had to challenge him on his dismissiveness about Nigel Farage's political talent. I have often criticised Nigel, but that Brexit would not have happened without him is, to me, inarguable. And he is repeating the feat by bringing Reform to the position it is currently in of consistently leading the polls.
My final question was the most obvious one. What if you peel enough voters away from both Reform and the Conservatives that the Left manages to scrape a majority again in 2029? I will let you judge Rupert's response for yourselves.
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