Former Reform MP Rupert Lowe says Nigel Farage ‘must never be prime minister’

The erstwhile Reform MP Rupert Lowe has accused his ex-colleagues of a “sinister” effort to usage the constabulary to soundlessness him, arsenic helium launched a furious onslaught connected Nigel Farage who helium said “must ne'er beryllium premier minister”.

Lowe, the MP for Great Yarmouth who present sits arsenic an independent, made the remarks aft the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed it would not bring transgression charges implicit allegations that Lowe made verbal threats successful parliament past December.

The CPS cited insufficient grounds and said its ineligible trial for prosecution had not been met.

Lowe said the incidental was portion of a wider run by Farage and his allies to “crush dissent” and “smear guiltless staff”, including briefing journalists that helium had dementia.

He besides accused his ex-colleagues of a “sinister effort to weaponise the transgression justness strategy against maine – putting not conscionable my governmental future, but my liberty astatine risk”.

He said successful a connection connected X: “If Farage were ever to power the immense powerfulness of the British state, I judge helium would not hesitate to bash to his adversaries what they person tried to bash to me. With existent power, I fearfulness helium would wield that immense work to crush dissent – arsenic helium has done clip and again implicit the years.”

Reform UK declined to comment.

In a nonstop entreaty to Reform voters, Lowe said: “For the bully of our country, Nigel Farage indispensable ne'er beryllium premier minister. To the millions of decent Reform supporters – you indispensable bash what you judge is right. I, personally, could not stay successful an organisation led by specified men. They bash not merit your support, your time, your energy, your wealth oregon your vote.”

Lowe, a erstwhile Brexit enactment MEP, was suspended from Reform this twelvemonth arsenic interior tensions boiled over. He said the enactment was “not acceptable to lead” and his erstwhile colleagues were “not acceptable to beryllium MPs”.

He has vowed to assistance “advance a governmental question that is credible, professional, decent, antiauthoritarian and honest”.

Malcolm McHaffie, the caput of the CPS peculiar transgression division, said: “Following a thorough and elaborate reappraisal of the grounds successful narration to an allegation of threats, we person decided that nary transgression charges should beryllium brought against a sitting MP. Having considered a fig of witnesser statements, we person concluded that determination is insufficient grounds to supply a realistic imaginable of conviction.

“The Crown Prosecution Service’s relation is not to determine whether a idiosyncratic is blameworthy of a transgression offence but to marque fair, autarkic and nonsubjective assessments astir whether it is due to contiguous charges for a transgression tribunal to consider. Based connected the cautious information of this evidence, we person decided that our ineligible trial for a transgression prosecution has not been met.”