Rupert Lowe - The Rape Gang Inquiry & Keir Starmer Resigning | PBD Podcast #822

Rupert Lowe, a British MP and former Reform UK member, walked into a two-week hearing where he listened to testimony from victims of grooming gangs. One girl was twelve when a man forced a broken bottle inside her. Another was locked in a dog cage in the back of a van. A third was raped by a dog while men filmed and laughed. The hearing produced a report estimating that at least 250,000 British children have been sexually abused by organized gangs. Lowe calls that number conservative. The report went viral on X, getting hundreds of millions of views. The BBC did not cover it.

Why the Report Exists

The report exists because, in Lowe's telling, the British state refused to conduct a statutory inquiry into the grooming gang scandal—an inquiry with the legal power to compel testimony. He argues that successive governments, particularly Labour, have been complicit because the Muslim bloc vote, delivered through a postal voting system he says needs reform, has been essential to winning inner-city seats. When Nigel Farage promised in Parliament that Reform UK would hold its own inquiry if the government did not, Lowe was sitting next to him. Farage then expelled Lowe from the party, accusing him of bullying and threatening behavior—allegations Lowe calls false and politically motivated. After clearing his name, Lowe set up a movement called Restore Britain and, with a team inclu