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The UK reform dramatically separated on Friday while the party removed the whip from one of its only five MPs and said that the police were reported for alleged threats to physical violence against the party president.
The order between the Nigel Farage populist party and Rupert MP Lowo threw reform in chaos, just as he tries to strengthen his survey against the ruling Labor Party and the main conservative opposition.
The tensions within the party have grown in recent days, and Lowe has claimed earlier this week that Farage’s management style was “Messiana”.
On Friday, Bich Lee Anderson and Chairman Zia Yusuf said that the party also appointed an independent king MP to investigate the complaints of two employees accused by Lowe of mistreatment.
Lowe, who is an MP in Great Yarmouth since last July, replied, saying that he had been “zero credible evidence” against him and that he was disappointed and surprised by the charges of “untrue and fake.”
He added that “it is not surprising that this disturbing statement was published the day after my reasonable and constructive issues of Nigel and the reform structure.”
The claims and illegations on Friday night shared divisions within the reform, which dreams of breaking labor and parliamentary duopol of conservatives. He is now reduced to only four MPs.
Anderson and Yusuf said Lowe had threatened to violence against the latter at least two occasions and that he was “now with the police”.
Their statement claimed: “We have been evidence of evidence of harassment in the workplace, aiming for women’s staff who expressed concern and evidence of derogatory and discriminatory remarks about women, including reference to a perceived disability.”
On Wednesday, Lowe seemed to have questioned Farage’s reform leadership, saying the Brexit campaign in an interview with the Daily Mail: “Nigel is a fiercely independent individual. . . It has messianic qualities. “
He added, “Will the Messianic features distill in the guidance of sage? I don’t know.”
Farage criticized Elon Musk for refusing to support the far -right agitator Tommy Robinson, who is in prison for disrespecting the court. Musk has repeatedly called Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Llennon to be released.
In January, in the midst of a proposal that Musk can donate significant amounts to foreigners, US billionaire suggested that Lowe Take the lead from Farage.
Yusuf and Anderson said their party was a duty to care for their entire staff. “Reform means the highest standards of behavior in public life, and we will apply these standards without fear or affection, including our own party.”
Lowe’s statement says, “Let me be profusely clear – this investigation is based on zero credible evidence against me, as it repeatedly states a neutral investigator.”
He said he spoke with a KC who was asked to investigate the claims: “She was scared that the statement was given and reiterated that she had not been sent for any evidence against me. She stated that it had been published before the investigation began at all.”
“The statement of physical threats are amazing and completely untrue,” Lowe said.
The MP said that he had previously sought to improve the party functions only to freeze from meetings, neglected and mock. “All I stated was that communication had to improve, delegation must improve, the structure must improve,” he said.
“The complete inability to accept even the most fun, constructive criticism without such a malicious reaction is not an effective leadership. This is our party as much as Nigel’s. “
Lowe is a former city investment banker who founded a pension home care provider and was chairman of Southampton Football Club.
Farage was first elected to Parliament last year, but one of the most influential figures in modern British politics, his decade of the EU’s campaign to leave the EU, as well as his previous leadership of the Independence Party in the UK.
He subsequently created a Brexit party that failed to win any place in the 2019 General Election.
His latest political vehicle, the UK reform, picked up 4 million votes in last year’s elections-which came to third place but only picked up five places within the British first post.
However, the UK reform gained public attraction because it seeks to surpass more centrally conservative parties with the right to issues such as immigration and “net zero” green policies.
One of the most significant Lowe with Farage was over his defense of Robinson earlier this year, and Lowe said, “He does not deserve to give him no credit for the things he has done.”
