The Metropolitan Police introduced it had launched an investigation “into an allegation of a series of verbal threats made by a 67-year-old man” between December 2024 and February 2025.
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Responding to the police assertion, Mr Lowe stated he had instructed attorneys, who had made contact with the Met and made them conscious of his willingness to co-operate in any obligatory investigation.
“My lawyers have not yet received any contact from the police,” he stated.
“It’s extremely uncommon for the police to reveal something to the media at this stage of an investigation.
“I remain unaware of the specific allegations, but in any event, I deny any wrongdoing. The allegations are entirely untrue.”
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Reform UK row defined
Might Lowe be a part of Tories?
“This has all happened over a few days,” Mr Lowe replied.
“I have been focused on debunking these false and damaging allegations. Who knows what will happen? I’m keeping my options open.”
In an interview on Monday, Mr Lowe stated: “I was a Tory years ago. I think the Tories have got a lot of work to do. I think there’s some extremely good Tory MPs. I get on with a lot of them.”
For the Conservatives, the shadow house secretary Chris Philp stated: “He hasn’t applied but obviously we’re a broad and welcoming political party.”
He instructed Instances Radio: “People have been joining the Conservatives from across the political spectrum and we always welcome new joiners.”
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Mr Lowe is a former chair of Southampton Soccer Membership. File pic: PA
New splinter group?
And in a transfer seen as a touch of a brand new splinter group, one other ousted Reform UK politician, former deputy chief Ben Habib, instructed The Day by day Telegraph that Mr Lowe was a “good friend” and he was “constantly in touch with” him.
“Honestly, all of them,” he stated.
“This was a team effort to blacken my name. If it wasn’t for my presence on X, I would have been buried under the false allegations. For that, I have to thank Elon Musk.”
He was requested about Mr Farage quoting Labour minister Mike Kane claiming after a heated Commons conflict with Mr Lowe in December: “The anger displayed towards me clearly showed a man not in charge of his own faculties.”
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Shadow house secretary Chris Philp stated the door was open. Pic: Reuters
In a Sunday Telegraph article, Mr Farage added: “I never saw anything like it in the European Parliament in 2019 when I was the leader of the Brexit Party and Mr Lowe was an MEP colleague.”
“Anyone who has known someone who has suffered so hideously from dementia will understand just how offensive it is. It shows the type of people we are dealing with.”
In the identical article, Mr Farage claimed there had been “too many similar outbursts from Mr Lowe, often involving the use of inappropriate language to the despair of our chief whip, Lee Anderson”.
Final yr, when Mr Anderson was Conservative Social gathering deputy chairman, he apologised after parliament’s watchdog on bullying and harassment discovered he instructed a safety guard to “f*** off, everyone opens the door to me”.
He was discovered to have twice sworn on the safety officer and acted in a method that “constituted bullying and also harassment” in breach of parliament’s behaviour coverage, an impartial skilled panel concluded.
