Elon Musk has expressed his backing for a new political movement spearheaded by a former Reform UK MP, which aims to “reverse” migration and embrace traditional British values. The initiative, known as Restore Britain, is the brainchild of Rupert Lowe, who now serves as an independent MP for Great Yarmouth in Norfolk.

After parting ways with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party last March following accusations of a physical threat against then-party chairman Zia Yusuf, Lowe embarked on establishing Restore Britain. The allegations led to his suspension, but the Crown Prosecution Service later dropped the case, citing insufficient evidence.

Restore Britain has emerged as a platform that seeks to unite with locally-focused candidates who share its right-leaning stances on issues such as migration, welfare, taxation, and national identity. As an umbrella party, its mission resonates with those advocating for a return to traditional values and policies.

Among its early supporters is Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, who publicly endorsed the party through a post on his X social media platform. Musk’s endorsement has attracted significant attention, with the post garnering 145,000 likes, highlighting the party’s growing visibility and appeal.

Restore Britain has established itself as an umbrella party that will partner with locally-based candidates who are in alignment with the party’s wide-ranging right-wing policies on migration, welfare, taxes and national identity.

The Tesla billionaire was among the first to endorse the party with a glittering post on his X social media platform that has been liked 145,000 times.

‘Join Rupert Lowe in Restore Britain, because he is the only one who will actually do it!’ wrote Musk, who at one time apparently supported Lowe’s former political boss.

But last January the world’s richest man sensationally turned on Farage, saying he should be removed as leader of Reform UK leader because he does not ‘have what it takes’.

Lowe, a businessman, farmer and previous chairman of Southampton FC, is expected to stand again for the Great Yarmouth constituency under the banner of Great Yarmouth First. 

The party will become the first to partner with the newly-launched Restore Britain, the BBC reported.

Lowe announced the creation of the party with a seven-minute long campaign video published onto his social media.

Dressed in a wax jacket, Lowe spoke from his farm in Withington, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire – ‘because places like this represent what proper Britain is about’, he explained. 

‘Hard work, responsibility, effort, duty, stewardship. This is the England I know and this is the England I love,’ he said. 

He went on to lament ‘the condition of our country’, adding ‘there are no easy fixes.’ 

On the issue of illegal small boats arriving in the UK, Lowe said Restore Britain ‘will not just stop mass immigration, we will reverse it,’ before pledging that every illegal migrant would be detained and deported.

‘The message will be unrelenting,’ said Lowe. ‘If a foreign national is unable to speak English, lives in social housing, claims benefits, refuses to work, fails to integrate, commits crime or even actively hates our way of life and wishes to do us harm then they must leave – or be made to leave.’

His party would also ‘make our communities safe again for women and children’ and would promise ‘a radical overhaul of welfare’ and ‘suffocating taxes’.

Lowe also did not mince his words over how the party would ‘resist the relentless creep of radical Islam.’

He said: ‘That will mean banning the burqa, outlawing Sharia law, blocking cousin marriages and re-imposing Christian-based rule of law.’

Restore Britain would also support a ban on halal and kosher slaughter of animals within the UK. 

‘This is Britain and we will do things our way,’ Lowe said adamantly. 

Conservative former minister Sir Gavin Williamson and Susan Hall, a Tory member of the London Assembly, are both Restore Britain board members but are understood to now be stepping down following its evolution into a political party.