Rupert Lowe has refused to say if he considers King Charles to be a “white Briton”. Restore Britain’s leader was challenged by BBC journalist Nick Robinson to provide his view on the monarch’s ethnicity in a heated clash live on air on Thursday morning (August 6).
Mr Lowe was being challenged over Restore Britain’s claim that white Britons could become a minority in 2063. Mr Robinson suggested that under his party’s definition of race, King Charles would not be considered a white Briton. The pair were locking horns over Restore’s approach to race and immigration.
Great Yarmouth’s MP replied: “Many people have different interpretations of that, Nick. We can split hairs, but I think… the spirit of what we’re talking about is quite clear.”
Restore Britain’s leader said most British people would agree with his view of the UK, which was why the party’s membership was “growing very fast” and the Today programme’s listeners were “dropping equally fast”.
A seemingly exasperated Mr Robinson could be heard saying “here we go” as Mr Lowe went on to accuse the BBC of peddling climate change, diversity, equity and inclusion, and a “malign agenda” which Britons are bored of.
The pair then clashed over whether or not Mr Lowe was ignoring the questions.
Mr Robinson told the MP that the population projection cited by Mr Lowe was widely disputed and based on a series of unproven assumptions.
He added that under Restore’s definition, a Briton can only be considered a white Briton if both parents were born in this country and because King Charles’s father, Prince Philip, was born in Greece, the monarch cannot be considered a white Briton.
Urged to move on in his line of questioning, Mr Robinson then asked about areas of Manchester described by Mr Lowe as being “British” and others which he said were “more Muslim areas”. The presenter asked: “Are you saying Muslims in Manchester are not British?”
Mr Lowe replied: “I don’t think a lot the Muslims in Manchester are integrating in British culture. If you go to Curry Mile you see entire communities who basically are pursuing their own culture, religion and agenda.
“Successful immigration involves accepting the faith and the structures that exist within the countries you settle in.”
He then claimed large parts of the UK are becoming unrecognisable compared to how they used to be even up to 30 years ago.