On Monday the prospect of the two warring factions signing a make-up pact seemed to be at an impasse.
Farage used a press conference in Westminster to publicly state a new condition for holding discussions with “that party,” as he referred to Restore. Lowe must, he said, kick out Restore’s co-founder — a move Lowe has already rejected.
“I’m always happy to meet people and talk to people — within reason,” Farage said when asked by POLITICO what his conditions for entering talks with Lowe would be.
“But I do think it’s fair to say that there are one or two people in the orbit of the upper echelons of that party who, if I sat down and talked to, I think our members and our voters would be utterly shocked that I’d done it,” he added.
“So we can talk to Rupert Lowe — that’s fine. But when you have co-founders, etcetera, putting out what I would call the ‘old theory’ — the old theory that we probably haven’t heard in this country since 1936 — and you have other adjacent publicly-supportive people demanding that all Jews be removed from the country, just as an example…
“So the condition I would put on it is those people would have to be out of the inner circle — and I think that for me would be the only way we could sensibly proceed.”