Reform UK says it has reported its MP Rupert Lowe to police, alleging he has made “threats of bodily violence” towards occasion chairman Zia Yusuf.
In a press release with chief whip Lee Anderson, Yusuf additionally mentioned the occasion had obtained allegations of bullying in Lowe’s parliamentary and constituency workplaces.
He added the occasion had appointed a lawyer to conduct an investigation into allegations of “office bullying” made by two feminine workers.
Writing on social media, Lowe mentioned the occasion’s allegations had been “unfaithful and false” and he was “disenchanted, however not shocked” to learn them.
He added there was “zero credible proof” towards him and he was “looking for authorized recommendation instantly”.
Lowe mentioned it was “no shock” that the occasion’s “vexatious assertion” had been launched the day after he had criticised occasion chief Nigel Farage.
In an interview with the Each day Mail, Lowe mentioned the occasion remained a “protest occasion led by the Messiah” beneath Farage’s management.
Lowe additionally instructed he may go away Reform UK if the occasion didn’t change earlier than the subsequent common election.
The MP mentioned: “We now have to vary from being a protest occasion led by the Messiah into being a correctly structured occasion with a frontbench, which we do not have. We now have to begin behaving as if we’re main and never merely protesting.”
Farage then hit again in a later interview, saying Lowe was “utterly unsuitable” and Reform UK was “completely not a protest occasion”.
