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Farage has been complaining that Restore the far right to fascist party which is run by Rupert Lowe, a former Reform MP who he fell out with, is taking votes from Farage’s political business in Makerfield allowing Andy Burnham a path to victory.

A Survation poll found Restore on 7% but it was a small sample. Moving on to a genuine psephologist Prof John Curtice (Mirror) he noted that if Restore polled at 3% it could prevent Reform winning 70 seats at a General Election leaving it well short of a majority.

Restore has been gathering support from the range of fascist and anti-Semitic splinters in the far right as research from Searchlight has underlined but its name recognition comes from a presence on Twitter, where Lowe is backed and promoted by Musk and on Facebook.

In fact Lowe’s tweets, thanks to Musk, get far greater engagement than Farage and Lowe has earned £72K from tweets in the past period, again far more than Farage.

Whether Musk should be allowed to use his algorithm to promote Lowe and Lowe earn money from it, are questions for anyone who thinks political democracy is a good idea. Starmer has called Musk out but what action will follow? Will he for example lead the way for an exodus of MPs and institutions off Twitter where most still actively reside?