What qualifies as too rightwing these days? It’s a question I’ve considered often in recent years. But it takes on even greater urgency when contemplating the rise of Restore Britain. Founded by multimillionaire businessman and former Reform MP Rupert Lowe, the party enjoys the active support of far-right tech bro Elon Musk, the world’s richest man. If Nigel Farage strikes you as a wet liberal, then Restore Britain may be the party you’ve been waiting for.

Its mission, it says, is to “reverse mass migration”. That means deporting not just undocumented migrants but “legally resident foreign nationals” who live in social housing, claim benefits or supposedly “fail to integrate” – a strikingly elastic category. Lowe himself declares that “millions and millions” need to leave or be made to leave. Officials and politicians “who knowingly placed dangerous third world savages in our communities” will be imprisoned.

You should hardly be surprised that among Restore’s prominent supporters are those with links to neo-Nazis who support the “total remigration” of any Britons with non-white heritage.

It may feel comforting to dismiss them as fringe wackos who have always existed. Surely they’re only louder because social media gives them a voice? Musk is certainly doing his best to boost his pet British cause on X. But whether Restore Britan’s claimed 130,000 membership is real – which would mean the party is bigger than the Conservatives – Labour canvassers on the ground for the Makerfield........

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