{"id":818857,"date":"2026-10-30T16:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818857\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T16:58:11","slug":"restore-britain-hands-labour-victory-by-two-votes-as-rupert-lowe-accused-of-doing-deal-with-tories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818857\/","title":{"rendered":"Restore Britain hands Labour victory by two votes as Rupert Lowe accused of doing deal with Tories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reform UK figures have also suggested Mr Lowe is doing a deal with the Tories after Restore Britain failed to field candidates in two seats held by the Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Bradley, a former Tory MP who joined Reform to lead its local government wing, said: &#8220;The only by-elections that Restore didn&#8217;t stand in yesterday were the two Tory-held ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Durham County Council leader Andrew Husband added: &#8220;Well done Rupert, I see a pattern where ResTory stand when it is Reform defending a seat but making a habit of not standing when the Tories are defending a seat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Mr Lowe said: &#8220;Strong progress across England, but I&#8217;m particularly encouraged by the Scots. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To turn up in a unfavourable seat for us and hit seven per cent straight off the bat, only a couple of dozen votes short of Reform? Incredible. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All important preparation for next May&#8217;s elections &#8211; there will be more news from Restore Britain on this very soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reform UK figures have also suggested Mr Lowe is doing a deal with the Tories after Restore Britain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,33142,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-818857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-membership","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818857","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=818857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}