Rupert Lowe refused on the ’s Today programme to say whether King Charles is a white Briton after Nick Robinson put the question directly to him. Lowe, who leads Restore Britain and sits as MP for Great Yarmouth, was pressed on a definition that treated a white Briton as someone whose parents were both born in the UK.
Nick Robinson presses Lowe
Robinson asked, “Are you aware that, by the definitions used in that particular report, King Charles is not a white Briton? Do you think he is a white Briton?” Lowe replied, “Well, many people have different interpretations of that, Nick. I mean, we can split hairs.” Robinson then answered, “We’re not splitting hairs – do you think the monarch of this country is a white Briton?”
Lowe did not give a direct answer. Instead, he said, “The experience of what we’re talking about is quite clear and I think most British people, if you speak to them, would agree.” He also said, “It is a fact that, by 2063, white British people will be a minority on current trends. I don’t think anyone disputes that.”
Prince Philip and the definition
Robinson tied the question back to the report’s wording and said, “So, because Prince Philip was born in Greece, King Charles is not, under your definition, treated as a white Briton. Now let me go on and ask you a different question.” That definition, as Robinson described it, turned on both parents being born in the UK.
The exchange matters because Lowe’s 2063 forecast was the point Robinson used to test the report’s categories in public. Lowe then shifted to the report itself, saying, “If you had the intellectual appetite to actually read the report, I don’t think you’d even need to ask me this question.”
Restore Britain and Nigel Farage
Lowe used part of the interview to say he had made a “genuine” effort to reach out to Nigel Farage “in good faith.” He said, “Now, so far, I had one message from Nigel on a Sunday morning at 10.30 saying, will call later.”
He also said he and Farage should set aside differences and cooperate “to destroy the looming leftwing alliance,” and said Restore’s “219-page rape gang inquiry report” had not been covered at all by the. The unanswered point left by the interview is whether Lowe personally treats King Charles as a white Briton under the definition Robinson used, and he did not say so on air.
