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Rupert Lowe MP posted a roughly 42-minute speech from the Restore Britain conference on 3 October 2026, captioned only “We will Restore Britain.” It had about 830,000 views and 18,000 likes within a day. The same recording is on the party’s YouTube channel as “We Will Restore Britain.” He argues Britain needs a full programme of national restoration, not Conservatives “conserving a rotten system,” Reform-style tweaks, or another party that complains without a governing plan. He points to papers the party has already published on deportations, pubs, self-defence, inheritance tax, energy, policing, belonging, financial regulation, borders, student loans, and an economic plan called The Wealth of Our Nation. Economy and welfare. Cut state spending from about 45% of GDP toward the roughly 33% level of 1997. Spending cuts first, then tax cuts: personal allowance to £16,000, basic-rate band to £100,000, no corporation tax on the first £50,000 of profit, and the 19% rate restored above that. Scrap stamp duty, inheritance tax, insurance premium tax, air passenger duty, the climate change levy, and IR35. Welfare becomes a “safety net, not a hammock”: healthy people who refuse work lose benefits or are put to work (litter, graffiti). He also says they led in proposing to scrap the triple lock and link the state pension to CPI. For young people: abolish student-loan interest for resident British nationals (principal still repaid). Immigration. Reverse it, not slow or stop it. Every illegal resident deported (“the boats will stop and the planes will start”). Legal non-citizens only if they work, speak English, integrate, and are a net gain. Foreign nationals in social housing or on benefits removed; those who cannot speak English deported. End all Third World immigration and a “red list” including Somalia, Pakistan, Eritrea, Albania, Afghanistan, Iran, and Bangladesh — “there will be no more Pakistani immigration… the borders will close.” Radical Islamists “surgically extracted.” Mass review of citizenship grants for fraud; an Office for Citizenship Standards; new grants only via marriage with fraud checks. He says a British passport does not make someone “part of our family.” Energy, order, and close. Expand North Sea oil and gas, explore shale, build nuclear and small modular reactors, repeal the Climate Change Act, scrap net-zero levies — “drill baby drill.” Stay out of Middle East wars that raise fuel prices. One law for everyone, including white British men; he cites a father of two jailed for two years after throwing a plastic bottle at police at an anti-migrant protest in Portsmouth, while arguing serious offenders walk free. Officials who “knowingly facilitated” what he calls an invasion should be prosecuted and, where appropriate, imprisoned. Closing line, after a Franklin “hang together” quote: he has never been more optimistic they can “take back our country.”