Rupert Lowe calls to ‘scrap’ Senedd expansion
Jibreel Meddah
Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has repeated calls for the Senedd to be scrapped, arguing that plans to expand the Welsh Parliament represent an unnecessary and costly burden on taxpayers.
In a post on social media platform X, Lowe said there was widespread public opposition to the institution and criticised the proposed increase in the number of Members of the Senedd.
“Vast number of Welsh patriots want the Senedd abolished – I entirely agree.
Seats soaring from 60 to 96, costing an extra £19 million a year? What an eye-watering waste.
Scrap the lot.”
Rupert Lowe, the MP for Great Yarmouth, is a prominent figure within Reform UK and a close party ally with leader Nigel Farage. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and used to own Southampton FC.
Since becoming an MP, he has built a polarising reputation due to his outspoken demand for constitutional reform, anti-immigration policies and increased public spending.
His use of social media has attracted ongoing controversy as he has been accused of inciting “culture wars” and oversimplifying complex policy issues. A move designed to prioritise impact and share-ability over nuance.
Lowe made similar comments about the Senedd’s expansion in August 2025. In a post published to X on Saturday 2 August 2025, Great Yarmouth MP, Rupert Lowe, wrote: “Scrapping the entire Welsh Assembly would be a positive move for Britain.
“More politicians, more laws, more waste, more talk, more state.
“We don’t need any of it.
“It doesn’t serve Wales, England or Britain.
“Abolish it.”
At the time, Labour MS Alun Davies blasted Reform saying Welsh democracy is not “the playground of the rich English establishment”.
He said: “The right wing hate our democracy. And they have always wanted to subjugate Wales to their own political agenda and interests.
“They hate opposition and like all bullies they hate people who challenge them.
“Welsh democracy is our democracy.
“It’s not the playground of the rich English establishment which Reform represents.
“And the power of our democracy is that we will take on their vested interests and defeat them. As we’ve done in the past.”
The Welsh Government has previously argued that increasing the number of Senedd members is vital to improve scrutiny and reflect the parliament’s expanded powers.
Under current plans the Senedd would grow from 60 to 96 members, a move ministers say would bring it more in line with legislatures of comparable size and responsibility.
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We in Cymru are trying to build a nation state, the expansion of MS numbers is crucial to achieve this aim. Some people know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
Uninvolved Wasteminster MPs intoning about a government that is nothing to do with them, shocker.
He probably want sot keep it small because Deform couldn’t field enough candidates to fill all those seats, even if the country DID have a collective mental breakdown and voted for them
You’ve just got to laugh as soon as an English politician or journalist mentions “the Welsh Assembly”. It shows how these dinosaurs live in the past. Not sure if dearest Rupert wants to scrap the Scottish Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly as well or is he just doing that traditional Reform trick of punching down on the little old Taffs (because they must be held down and taught their place). One thing he is right about is that it “doesn’t serve England”. That’s because it is in Wales for Wales, you bonehead. Perhaps, deep down, he really means abolish Wales.
It’s odd that when this increase in democracy is costing about the same as two new doors for the unelected House of Lords, it’s the democratic institution he rails against. Fascists hate democracy.
I am always happy to read another informed remark from that famous Cymro Rupert Lowe – he bows to no-one in his deep and sympathetic knowledge of the history and culture of Cymru. And have you heard his fluent Cymraeg? Meanwhile, back in the real world…
The opening line on this article needs changing: Lowe isn’t an MP for the right-wing extreme far-rage one-man cult, aka reform UK 2025 Ltd, even they won’t have him and threw him out. He’s even worse, if that’s possible.
You are correct but I think I just read past it because they are all the same hate driven, cess pit dwellers so name any of them and that’s near enough.
Another far right nut job poking his nose in affairs that have absolutely nothing to do with him. You’d think after the disastrous Brexit these clowns would keep their heads well down but not a bit of it.
Great Yarmouth is the furthest east you can get on this island but not far away enough for him so put him in a boat and push it away. I wouldn’t wish him on the good folk of Rotterdam though. I don’t think that is any more an outrageous thing to say than advocating for the abolition of a nation, its’ Parliament, a peoples’ national identity and existence. Nowhere near in fact.
Deform are just an antisemitic, anti islamic, racist and now clearly anti Welsh political party.
The whole of Europe defends Greenland. Why cant they support Welsh Independence???
What the hell does Rupert Lowe know about the Senedd? Keep your beaky English nose out of Wales matters, you ignorant cockwomble!
Wish him all the best when he next visits Wales. He’ll leave with eggs and milkshakes all over him.
Stay out of our business. What we do in Wales does not affect you or the people of Great Yarmouth.
How about he concentrates on ruining his own country. No place for racist filth like him in Wales
Posh, rich English MP wants to abolish any Welsh voice, unless its a Reform one of course.
Don’t you sense that elements of Westminster are starting to get a little nervous about the consequences of the forthcoming Senedd election?
English nationalists should focus on a free England. I don’t see the relevance of a Norfolk MP here.