{"id":729652,"date":"2026-08-06T19:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729652\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:34:10","slug":"is-king-charles-a-white-briton-restore-britain-leader-rupert-lowe-wont-say-restore-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729652\/","title":{"rendered":"Is King Charles a \u2018white Briton\u2019? Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe won\u2019t say | Restore Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rupert Lowe, the leader of Restore Britain<\/a>, refused to say he believes King Charles can be classified as a \u201cwhite Briton\u201d in an extraordinary interview on the BBC\u2019s Today programme.<\/p>\n

Questioning Lowe, the MP for Great Yarmouth, over his claims that \u201cwhite Britons will become a minority by 2063\u201d, the presenter, Nick Robinson, noted that the forecast Lowe referred to defined a \u201cwhite Briton\u201d as someone whose parents were both born in the UK.<\/p>\n

With the king\u2019s late father, Prince Philip<\/a>, having been born on the Greek island of Corfu, Robinson asked Lowe: \u201cAre you aware that, by the definitions used in that particular report, King Charles is not a white Briton? Do you think he is a white Briton?\u201d<\/p>\n

Declining to address the question, Lowe responded: \u201cWell, many people have different interpretations of that, Nick. I mean, we can split hairs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rupert Lowe: \u2018By 2063, white British people will be a minority on current trends.\u2019 Photograph: Jason Bye\/The Guardian<\/p>\n

Robinson interjected: \u201cWe\u2019re not splitting hairs \u2013 do you think the monarch of this country is a white Briton?\u201d<\/p>\n

Lowe said: \u201cThe experience of what we\u2019re talking about is quite clear and I think most British people, if you speak to them, would agree.\u201d<\/p>\n

Accused of ignoring the question, he continued: \u201cIt is a fact that, by 2063, white British people will be a minority on current trends. I don\u2019t think anyone disputes that.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Lowe continued to decline to give a direct answer, Robinson said: \u201cSo, because Prince Philip was born in Greece, King Charles is not, under your definition, treated as a white Briton. Now let me go on and ask you a different question.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mon Repos, the villa on the Greek island of Corfu where Prince Philip was born in 1921. Photograph: Alkis Konstantinidis\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Lowe said: \u201cI did come on to speak about ostensibly the economic paper we\u2019ve just put out, and about the issue with Nigel Farage, and you\u2019ve managed to turn it into a discussion about British people becoming minority, white British people, by 2063.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nigel Farage has said Restore could inflict \u201cgreat harm\u201d on his party, Reform UK. Lowe, who was expelled from Reform, said in a video message<\/a> earlier this week he and Farage should set aside differences and cooperate \u201cto destroy the looming leftwing alliance\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said he had made a \u201cgenuine\u201d effort to reach out to Farage \u201cin good faith\u201d, adding: \u201cNow, so far, I had one message from Nigel on a Sunday morning at 10.30 saying, will call later. Now, in his press conference, he said he was waiting for a call from me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lowe was also asked several times to provide evidence \u201cthat Britain, in your words, is hurtling towards becoming an Islamic country\u201d.<\/p>\n

He pointed towards Restore\u2019s \u201c219-page rape gang inquiry report\u201d. The BBC<\/a> had not covered it at all, Lowe said, adding: \u201cAnd if you had the intellectual appetite to actually read the report, I don\u2019t think you\u2019d even need to ask me this question.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rupert Lowe, the leader of Restore Britain, refused to say he believes King Charles can be classified as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-729652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729652","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=729652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}