It was only a few weeks ago that Reform UK was flying high in the polls. Now a fallout between the party leadership and MP Rupert Lowe has left their voters shaken – with Lowe currently suspended from the group over allegations of bullying made against his office and under investigation by the Metropolitan Police. But while Lowe’s social media supporters are outraged by his treatment, it doesn’t appear like much of the rest of the public know quite who he is…
According to polling by JL Partners for GB News carried out between 10-11 March, when a ‘nationally representative’ sample of 2,065 Brits were shown a picture of Lowe and asked to identify him, a whopping 86 per cent of the public failed to do so. More staggeringly, seven out of ten Reform UK voters didn’t appear to know who Lowe is. Awkward!
It doesn’t bode well for a politician who, it has been suggested, could join a breakaway party to rival Reform in the wake of the allegations against him.
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