Police investigate Reform MP Rupert Lowe over alleged ‘verbal threats’

Rupert Lowe has made public criticisms of Reform UK’s leader, Nigel Farage, in recent weeks. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

The Metropolitan police are investigating the suspended Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe after the party alleged he had made threats against its chair.

A statement by the force, which did not name Lowe, said: “The Metropolitan police have now launched an investigation into an allegation of a series of verbal threats made by a 67-year-old man.”