Reform could face a legal challenge after their candidate for Mayor of London branded a rival MP a “neo-nazi”. Taking to social media, the Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe said that he was “consulting our legal team” and urged Laila Cunningham, Reform’s Mayoral candidate “to make a full retraction and public apology, soon.” It comes after Ms Cunningham, 48, appeared on GB News today accusing the Restore Britain, the party Mr Lowe, 68, set up last weekend of saying “if you’re not white and Christian in this country, you’re not British.” She further alleged they were after a “kind of like neo-Nazi aryan race”.

Ms Cunningham added: “That flies in the face of wanting integration and assimilation, because no matter how much you integrate and assimilate according to them you will never be British.” Reform declined to comment. Restore Britain’s spokesperson denied the allegations, adding that calling the party ‘neo-nazis’ would put them “in severe danger”.

On social media Mr Lowe wrote: “Reform is just more of the same. Old, tired, party political bulls*** that has failed us all for so many years. Flinging around these insults when they can’t tackle the arguments. We’ve had it for decades. It is so very boring.”

The spat comes just days after the party was formed, which the former Reform MP announced in a video broadcast from his farm. At the time he said: “I have chosen to speak to you today from the farm, because places like this are what proper Britain is about. Hard work, responsibility, effort, duty, stewardship. This is the England I know, and this is the England I love.”

Party insiders say the organisation now has more than seventy-thousand members, which they claim is “more than the Liberal Democrats”. The Daily Express has not been able to independently verify these claims. Restore Britain has seen the defection of 9 councillors, 7 in Kent and 2 in Northamptonshire in the past two days.

Mr Lowe was ejected from Reform last year after a public spat with Nigel Farage and other members. Speaking at a media conference yesterday Mr Farage dismissed concerns around the new party posing a risk to Reform saying: “Does he [Lowe] have a profile on X? Yes he does. Is Elon [Musk] going to support him? Probably. But you see, when he stood up and said ‘we’ve got to consider the mass deportation of entire communities, including those born in the United Kingdom’, that just moves way beyond the point of reasonableness, decency, morality.”

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Ms Cunningham, a former Conservative Party councillor in the City of Westminster, was appointed as Reforms candidate for Mayor of London in 2025. She was approached for comment. When selected she pledged to be a “new sheriff in town” as she promised to stand up against criminals in London. When accused of being “far right” last year she described the accusations as attempts to “discredit” or “shut down” debate.

Mr Lowe has had numerous run-ins with Reform after he attracted large amounts of media attention when billionaire Elon Musk suggested he would like to see the MP replace Nigel Farage as leader of Reform. He was later ejected from the party after a separate dispute saw him accused by Reform donor and head of policy Zia Yusuf of abusive behaviour, an allegation Mr Lowe denies.

Today’s row is the latest in a long line of disputes between the two parties. Mr Farage has previously slammed minor parties, saying yesterday: “There are, last time we counted, 11 parties that claim to be on the right or centre right of British politics, from the Heritage Party to goodness knows who else. There is only one proper brand of centre-right politics in this country, it’s call Reform. People think ‘oh, Farage has done it, we’ll just set a party up, it’ll be marvellous, we’ll sweep the next election’, it just isn’t as easy as that!”