Restore Britain leader Rupert Law has secured support from former Chelsea captains John Terry and Dennis Wise for his controversial policy to ban foreigners from claiming benefits in the UK. The pair have faced considerable criticism after publicly expressing their support for the former Southampton boss.
Mr Lowe has emerged as an outspoken politician, although he has twice resigned from his role at Saints – once in 2005 when he oversaw Saints’ relegation and again in 2009 when Southampton Leisure Holdings came into power. The 68-year-old left Nigel Farage’s Reform Party to found Restore, which champions the deportation of illegal immigrants, protects British culture and restores Christian values.
Lowe took to social media to make one of his key stances. He said: “We should ban foreigners from claiming benefits and weed out immigrants who cannot support themselves financially. We should use the billions of dollars we save to cut taxes for the British men and women who keep our economy going. Recovery Britain will do just that and put its own people first. Finally.”
Former Blues and England stalwart Terry looked like he was putting his heart and soul into it. In the comments section, he wrote, “100% yes.”
Former Millwall and Leeds United manager Dennis Wise further expressed his support, commenting: “200%”. Both men encountered considerable opposition to their views. One social media user said: “Cool. If John Terry and Dennis Wise stand for something, it’s probably best to be on the opposite side of them. Thank you.”
Mr Lowe was recently challenged in Parliament after expressing his ambition to block foreigners from receiving benefits. He claimed that £10.1bn of the 2024 Universal Credit payment was “gifted to foreigners” and questioned whether the answer was to “ban all foreigners from claiming benefits, remove from our country immigrants who cannot support themselves economically and return that money to British men and women who pay their taxes”.
Andrew Western, a Labor MP and under-secretary of state for change, said: “It shows his ignorance if he does not understand that the figures he is using are a complete mix-up, a gross overstatement and it is impossible to suggest that all that money was paid directly to foreigners.”
“The figures he is using are derived from the total number of households with foreign nationals, and many individual claimants may actually be British or Irish.”
