On Monday, the possibility of the two opposing groups reaching a reconciliation seemed stalled.
During a press conference in Westminster, Farage announced a new stipulation for engaging in discussions with what he called “that party,” referring to Restore. He insisted that Lowe must expel Restore’s co-founder, which Lowe has already refused to do.
“I’m always happy to meet people and talk to people — within reason,” Farage said when POLITICO inquired about his terms for negotiating with Lowe.
“But I do think it’s fair to say that there are one or two people in the orbit of the upper echelons of that party who, if I sat down and talked to, I think our members and our voters would be utterly shocked that I’d done it,” he added.
“So we can talk to Rupert Lowe — that’s fine. But when you have co-founders, etcetera, putting out what I would call the ‘old theory’ — the old theory that we probably haven’t heard in this country since 1936 — and you have other adjacent publicly-supportive people demanding that all Jews be removed from the country, just as an example…
“So the condition I would put on it is those people would have to be out of the inner circle — and I think that for me would be the only way we could sensibly proceed.”
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