Rupert Lowe said the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Mail were “abusing Restore Britain” after both papers ran front-page attacks on his party. The first called out “Restore Activists at ‘White Supremacy Summit’” before the Makerfield byelection, and Lowe replied, “We’ve got the buggers on the run.”
The Mail on Sunday said supporters canvassing for Restore Britain before the Makerfield byelection had attended an event that hosted calls for “a white-only Europe”. Restore Britain called that story “totally irrelevant” and a “hit piece”.
Mail on Sunday and Daily Mail
The Daily Mail followed with the headline “Restore is the ‘new home for neo-Nazis’”. Lowe said, “Two Daily Mail front pages in a row abusing Restore Britain in the most spectacular fashion.” He also said that if Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson, wanted to join Restore, it was “up to him”.
A Reform source supplied the quote used for the Daily Mail headline. That left the paper’s attack tied to the same split on the right that has made Restore Britain a target for rival coverage.
Makerfield byelection
The Makerfield byelection gives the story its immediate political weight. The article said there was a realistic possibility that Restore’s splitting of the right-wing vote could be the difference in the contest, turning a media attack into part of the election itself.
Restore Britain is described as a harder-line party than Reform UK on deporting “millions and millions” of people, and Reform figures believed that stance could push the Mail and other titles toward Reform UK. That is why the front pages matter now: they are not only attacking Lowe’s party, they are also helping define which right-leaning voters see it as usable or not.
Telegraph and Britain
Over the same weekend, the Telegraph ran a full-page feature interview with Lowe, who railed against “woke creeps”. The article said the paper’s direction remains unclear ahead of its imminent new ownership by Axel Springer, while right-leaning newspapers are trying to gauge where readers stand as Britain’s right fragments.
For Restore Britain, the next test is whether the Makerfield byelection turns that media barrage into a measurable split in votes, or leaves the attacks as a warning to voters before they cast their ballots.
