Newman had argued that while Lowe was “becoming a major force, arguably, in politics”, temporarily blocking the ICGS from investigating the complaint would not harm the watchdog.<\/p>\n
Sarah Hannett KC, for the ICGS, said that Lowe \u2013 who earlier this month announced the launch of a new political party called Restore Britain \u2013 was subject to rules and procedures setting out standards of behaviour for members of the House of Commons.<\/p>\n
She said it meant Lowe was “answerable to the House” about the allegations, and that it was not “the constitutional role of the court to supervise or interfere with that”.<\/p>\n
A separate hearing on whether the court has jurisdiction to deal with the wider legal challenge is scheduled for 17 March.<\/p>\n
In his ruling on Tuesday, Mr Justice Chamberlain said the risk of harm to Lowe if the temporary block was not granted had been “overstated”.<\/p>\n
He also said it “seems very unlikely” that the ICGS would make any public findings related to its investigation before the March hearing.<\/p>\n
“This public interest in the continued operation of the complaints process would be a weighty one in any case, and would be especially so if the claimant is, as Mr Newman says, becoming a major political force,” he added.<\/p>\n
The ICGS is responsible for investigating complaints related to bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct within Parliament.<\/p>\n
Lowe was elected as a Reform UK MP in 2024 but was suspended by the party in March last year amid claims he had threatened then-party chairman Zia Yusuf.<\/p>\n
He denied the allegations, and the Crown Prosecution Service said no criminal charges would be brought against him in relation to alleged threats towards Yusuf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newman had argued that while Lowe was “becoming a major force, arguably, in politics”, temporarily blocking the ICGS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-443829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}