Rupert Lowe caught on camera using ‘antisemitic language’
Rupert Lowe, the former Reform UK MP, appears to have been caught on camera using “antisemitic language”.
The Great Yarmouth MP can be heard remarking on the size of a camera which is about to start filming him, describing it as a “Jewish camera”, in a video obtained by The Guardian newspaper.
Mr Lowe was suspended from Reform UK earlier this year following a string of allegations about his conduct, which he has strenuously denied.
In the footage obtained by The Guardian, understood to have been recorded in February or March, Mr Lowe is seen sitting on a green sofa in a meeting with parliamentary staff.
‘Politically incorrect’
As he noticed the camera, Mr Lowe said: “In days gone by you’d call it a Jewish camera, but that would be politically incorrect. Because it’s so small.”
Following laughter from the room, someone out of sight of the video can be heard to say: “Career over in a second.”
Mr Lowe appeared to agree, repeating: “Career over in a second.”
Asked about his comments, Mr Lowe told the PA news agency the video was a “ludicrous smear attempt”.
‘Bizarre’
But the Board of Deputies of British Jews, one of the UK’s largest Jewish community organisations, branded the remarks antisemitic.
“This is bizarre and outdated antisemitic language which has no place in our politics. Mr Lowe should apologise for the offence this remark has caused,” a spokesperson for the board said.
Mr Lowe was suspended from Reform UK in March after he was accused of making verbal threats against party chairman Zia Yusuf, and of bullying.
The Crown Prosecution Service said no criminal charges would be brought against the independent MP earlier this month in relation to alleged threats towards Mr Yusuf.
Mr Lowe has since accused his ex-colleagues of engaging in a “sinister” attempt to use the police to silence him, and branded Reform’s leader Nigel Farage a “coward and a viper”.
The MP has hinted in interviews since his suspension he would be interested in setting up his own challenger political party on the right.
He has also suggested he would be open to joining the Conservatives, if the party were to undergo reform.
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And reform was his home and they were happy to have him. They seem to attract a certain type.
They’ve got rid of him so your comment is bizarre
I hope he will rot in a jail
I recently watched a half hour plus interview with this guy conducted by Emily Maitlis for LBC. He employed the interview equivalent of political ‘filibustering’ wittering on and on trying in vain to head off any awkward questions she had for him but despite being almost shut out, she did manage to land some verbal punches on him. It made clear to me why the quickly diminishing Elon Musk preferred him to Farage. He’s very good at stamping out ‘free speech’ by not leaving a gap for it and effectively SHUTTING IT DOWN which is what the ‘free speech’ movement… Read more »
Not forgetting whne they spout off about “free speech” we know what they want to say and who they want to say it about.
It’s been really interesting following the ‘free to hate speech’ phenomenon as it dawns on many of us that it demands our silence. Luckily, we don’t comply.
Defraud UK is what happens when you don’t have an effective deterrent against traitors and collaborationists
Is this the same Rupert Lowe who called for an end to devolution because ‘we are one country’? This idiot should focus on what’s best for Great Yarmouth and not about what Scotland and Wales do.
He must be auditioning to be uncancelled.