38 Facts About Rupert Lowe

Rupert James Graham Lowe was born on 31 October 1957 and is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth since 2024.

Rupert Lowe was a member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands from 2019 to 2020.

At the 2019 European Parliament election, Rupert Lowe was elected as MEP for the West Midlands, representing the Brexit Party, which later became Reform UK.

Rupert Lowe held this role until the UK's withdrawal from the European Union in 2020.

Rupert Lowe entered Parliament at the 2024 general election as MP for Great Yarmouth and was appointed Reform UK's Business and Agriculture Spokesman.

Rupert Lowe was born on 31 October 1957 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.

Rupert Lowe was educated at Radley College, an all-boys independent boarding school, and the University of Reading.

Rupert Lowe then worked in the City of London for companies such as Morgan Grenfell, Deutsche Bank and Barings Bank.

Rupert Lowe was a board member of the London International Financial Futures Exchange.

Rupert Lowe founded Secure Retirements, a quoted care home provider, with Andrew Cowen, later the Southampton vice-chairman.

Rupert Lowe guided the club from their old stadium into the 32,000-seater St Mary's Stadium, which opened in 2001, and the club continued to follow a long-standing policy of selling players for high prices.

Rupert Lowe appointed Harry Redknapp manager of Southampton in December 2004.

Southampton were relegated in 2005 and Rupert Lowe appointed Clive Woodward as the Director of Football of Southampton in July 2005.

Rupert Lowe won a libel case against The Times in 2005 regarding a column by the sportswriter Martin Samuel that alleged that Rupert Lowe had treated Jones "shabbily" following the latter's suspension after he was accused of child abuse charges on which he was acquitted.

On 30 June 2006, Rupert Lowe resigned under huge pressure from club supporters, including the newly formed Saints Trust, following the club's failure to win promotion back to the Premiership.

In July 2008, Rupert Lowe returned as chairman of Southampton Leisure Holdings.

Rupert Lowe has served as a member of the executive board of The Football Association as a Premier League representative and as an FA Councillor and on the FA Cup committee.

Rupert Lowe was a member of the Conservative Party until 1993, when he left the party after questioning the Maastricht Treaty.

Rupert Lowe stood for election as the Referendum Party candidate for The Cotswolds in the 1997 general election and came fourth.

Rupert Lowe won a seat for the Brexit Party in the West Midlands constituency in the 2019 European Parliament elections.

Rupert Lowe had planned to be the Brexit Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Dudley North constituency of the UK Parliament but withdrew.

In March 2023, Rupert Lowe returned to politics as Reform UK's Business and Agriculture Spokesman.

Rupert Lowe pledged to donate his MP salary to a different local charity or worthy cause each month.

On 8 January 2025 Rupert Lowe brought in a Ten Minute Rule Bill to ban quantitative easing, praising Argentinian president Javier Milei and looking forward to Elon Musk working with Donald Trump, before saying "The cost of government should be covered by taxes alone, limiting the growth of excessive statism" which he said was linked to "a general moral decline in society".

In January 2025, Rupert Lowe voted along with other Reform UK MPs to block the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill with a motion that called for a new national inquiry into grooming gangs.

On 6 March 2025, in an interview with the Daily Mail, Rupert Lowe criticised the governance of Reform UK as "a protest party led by the Messiah", suggesting he might leave the party if things did not change, and saying it was too early to tell if Nigel Farage would make a good prime minister.

On 7 March 2025, it was announced that Rupert Lowe had been reported to the police by Reform UK after its Chairman, Zia Yusuf, alleged Rupert Lowe made verbal threats against him three months and a month prior, in December 2024 and in February 2025 respectively, and that he was under investigation by Reform UK for claims of bullying within his parliamentary office.

Reform UK said that Rupert Lowe had refused to cooperate with the investigation, while Rupert Lowe himself said that Reform UK's statement was published before an investigation had even begun.

Rupert Lowe subsequently had the whip suspended by Party Whip Lee Anderson who said 'to remove the whip was a deeply painful thing to do.

Rupert Lowe denied all allegations against him and called them vexatious.

Rupert Lowe alleged that there were malicious briefings against him by "senior Reform figures" to journalists to claim he had dementia and that both his removal from Reform UK and the investigation into his alleged conduct were in response to his criticisms of Farage as leader of the party.

Rupert Lowe said that he had disagreed with Farage over the former's endorsement of mass deportations and support for forcibly removing over a million people from the UK if required.

Staff members for Rupert Lowe have dismissed the bullying allegations as "nonsense" and the alleged bullying by Rupert Lowe was later revealed not to involve him.

Rupert Lowe concluded by saying Farage "must never be Prime Minister".

Rupert Lowe is married to Nicky Lowe and they have four children.

Rupert Lowe owns Ravenswell Farm in Withington, near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire.

In February 2018, Rupert Lowe was one of several people who received undisclosed damages payouts from Mirror Group Newspapers as part of the phone hacking scandal.

Rupert Lowe was appointed a Director of Rutherford Health, PLC in 2018 and Digme Fitness in 2017.