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The Met Police have dropped their investigation into former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe, and will not bring charges over allegations he threatened a senior member of Nigel Farage’s party.
Reform reported Lowe to the police in March alleging that he had made physical threats of violence against the party’s chair Zia Yusuf between December 2024 and February 2025.
In a statement released on Wednesday, Lowe accused Farage of a “sinister attempt to weaponise the criminal justice system against me — putting not just my political future, but my liberty at risk”.
The police probe came amid a public spat between Lowe and Farage after the former Reform MP publicly accused the party leader of having “messianic qualities” and said he “has to learn to delegate, as not everything can go through one person”.
