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Evening Standard
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Politics
Nina Lloyd

Police probe ‘verbal threats’ claim as Reform UK suspends MP Rupert Lowe

Rupert Lowe (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

Reform UK has suspended MP Rupert Lowe and reported him to the police, accusing him of threatening violence towards the party chairman a day after he criticised leader Nigel Farage.

Scotland Yard said a complaint of “verbal threats” made on Thursday about an alleged incident last December was being assessed by officers after Mr Lowe, who was elected to his Great Yarmouth seat last year, lost the whip on Friday.

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