Rupert Lowe MP has told GB News he is concerned that Britain could become an ‘Islamist’ country, in an exclusive interview.
The Reform Party MP said in a clip exclusively for GB News members that he was concerned about Britain becoming Islamist following comments from US Republican politician JD Vance.
When asked whether he agreed with JD Vance, the Vice Presidential nominee for the Republicans who recently joked that Britain could become the first Islamist country with nuclear weapons, Mr Lowe said: “Of course it is a concern”.
The Reform MP for Great Yarmouth continued: “To have any form of immigration means that those people have to come here and accept the principles, the language and everything else that we stand for.”
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“To me they should come here and they should integrate.”
“They should be part of what we are; They should not live in isolation in various centres across the country.”
Mr Lowe warned that in places such as Leicester and Bradford and “other parts of the country” there are “Islamic populations which are effectively dominating now local politics”.
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“So what we have to do is try and create a level playing field where it's ability which effectively dictates how people interface with each other,” the new Member of Parliament stressed.
Mr Lowe, who is the former owner of Southampton Football Club, has made waves in the House of Commons after he challenged Sir Keir Starmer over mass migration last month.
The Reform MP asked the prime minister whether he agreed “importing millions of people with no thought whatsoever to the brutal consequences has failed our country?”
In response Sir Keir said he took the issue of illegal migration seriously and slammed Rishi Sunak for allowing 50,000 people to cross the channel under his watch.
Mr Lowe also told GB News that “we all know which areas have a problem with a lack of integration. And I think that is a worry.”
“That's sort of a dark spot which is not necessarily going to help us as a geographical area or as a country or indeed as a community.”
Immigration numbers, both illegal and legal, soared under the Conservatives.
Since 2018 more than 130,000 people have crossed the English Channel in small boats illegally.
In 2022, a record 764,000 more people came to Britain than left, representing the highest net migration the country had recorded in a single year in its history.
A YouGov poll from earlier this month found immigration to be the most important issue facing the British public, ahead of the economy and crime.
51% of people told the pollster immigration was the most important national issue, including 90% of Reform voters.