SUSPENDED Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe reportedly wants to send all migrants to an island off the coast of Scotland and “let the midges do their work”.
GB News host Andrew Pierce was speaking on the Good Morning Britain show on Tuesday about the growing rift in Reform UK between the MP and the party leadership where he made the claim.
Lowe has currently been suspended by Reform and was stripped of the party whip last week over a series of allegations against him, including claims he bullied two female members of staff.
On Tuesday it was announced the Metropolitan Police have opened an investigation into the suspended Great Yarmouth MP, who is also accused of making threats against a senior party office-bearer.
Lowe has suggested part of the reason why he has been suspended by the party is due to his views on migration or the way he talked about “mass deportations” or “Pakistani rape gangs”.
On the ITV show Pierce was discussing Lowe’s policies on immigration when he claimed the Reform MP had a “very simple” view about people who cross the Channel – to “ship them off” to Scotland.
“Lowe would say his main point is about migration,” Pierce said.
“He's got a very simple view about migration, illegal migrants, all of them, all of them should be deported.
“He actually said initially when they crossed the Channel, he would ship them straight off to an island off of the Scottish coast if necessary, and he actually used the quote, ‘let the midges do their work’.”
Associate editor at the Daily Mirror, Kevin Maguire, replied: “He's probably the nastiest of the five.”
Maguire was referring to Reform’s five MPs Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, James McMurdock, Lee Anderson and Lowe.
Pierce then added: “I don’t think he is nasty, I think he’s very impressive.”
Lowe (below) had said the Reform UK chair, Zia Yusuf may have disliked comments he made in the past around immigration and that the party had asked him to excise a reference to “mass deportations” he planned to make at a rally in Kemi Badenoch’s North West Essex constituency.
Speaking about his suspension in a YouTube interview with the right-wing commentator Dan Wootton, Lowe said: “Is it because Nigel thought I was getting too powerful?
“Is it because Zia Yusuf thought I was talking too much about deportation or mass deportation, or the Pakistani rape gangs? I simply don’t know.
Rupert Lowe has been approached for comment.
