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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00:00Rupert Lowe, we love a plot in politics.
00:02We love a tryst and illicit meeting.
00:05You met with Robert Jemmerich.
00:07What was on the menu?
00:09Well, look, Martin, it's a pleasure to be back
00:11with my old ex-MEP colleague from the West Midlands.
00:16It's been some time since I was...
00:18There was an attempted political assassination attempt against me
00:21which could have landed me in prison with no basis to it.
00:25But anyway, here I am. I'm in rude health.
00:28I'm actually enjoying a bit of a parliamentary recess,
00:30getting a dose of reality down in the country
00:33and keeping my feet firmly on the ground
00:35and out of the what I call loony bin of Parliament.
00:40But look, I mean, I had lunch with Robert Jemmerich
00:44probably three months ago at my club
00:46and I simply had lunch with him at his club.
00:50I've always said, since my political assassination,
00:54which was very clumsy and arguably somewhat unchristian,
00:58I have all options open.
01:02And I have to confess, I was not expecting to be politically taken out
01:06like a sort of wing forward takes out the scrum half if he can.
01:13But I'm now free.
01:16I've got lots of options open to me.
01:18I'm not plotting to do any badness to anybody else.
01:24What I'm intent on doing, and I think I've made this clear,
01:26is changing the way Britain's governed by 2029.
01:30And I've now got to turn my mind to finding a way to do that.
01:33I personally, having witnessed, having come from the real world
01:37and having now witnessed the way Parliament operates,
01:40the way the civil service operates,
01:42the way the front bench operates,
01:43the way the Labour government is basically surrendering
01:48vast tracts of British sovereign territory
01:51with absolutely, you know, almost with a smile on their faces.
01:54They speak with forked tongue.
01:57So I think collectively,
02:00the British people who care about the country
02:02have to now find a solution
02:04to changing the way we're governed by 2029.
02:08And that's what I'm turning my mind to.
02:10So talking to the Tories, I talk to all the Tories a lot.
02:14You know, they knew that the attempt
02:16to politically assassinate me was a farce.
02:19OK.
02:19Ruben, can we stop dwelling on that, please?
02:25You've made that point now about five times.
02:28But rather than being cold-shouldered, Martin,
02:30I've been talking to them.
02:32There's some great young Tories.
02:34OK, good.
02:35And let's talk about what that might look like.
02:37You've been quite critical of the Conservatives in the past,
02:40although you are naturally a Conservative by heritage.
02:43What is it?
02:44Is there anything particular about Robert Jemmerich
02:47that's caught your eye as a kind of man
02:49you might like to work with?
02:51Well, I think there are some very able Tories.
02:54A lot of them are young.
02:55I mean, I've got huge amounts of admiration
02:58for Jack Rankin, for Katie Lamb,
03:01some of the young Tories.
03:02But there is this overhang of Cameronite,
03:05what I call Lib Dems.
03:07So as I said to Robert,
03:09and I think Robert is a bit like a sort of Catholic convert.
03:13He's almost more Catholic than the Catholics now
03:16because he, as you know, voted to remain
03:17and he did all sorts of things that I wouldn't approve of.
03:20But I think we've got to find somehow a collective solution.
03:24And what that means, and what I've been trying to do,
03:27is effectively unite right-wing thought through policy.
03:31And that was my issue.
03:33We need policy, Martin.
03:34We have to have a plan.
03:36We have to have, if you like,
03:38a detailed road map to changing the way we're governed.
03:44And that's not going to happen
03:45by just what I call shallow rhetoric.
03:47That's got to happen by plan.
03:50So I'm now exploring all options.
03:53All options are open, Martin.
03:54That's the message.
03:55That's the message.