Published by The New Angle on Mar 2, 2026
March 2nd, 2026
A few weeks ago, an Englishman stood in front of a crowd in Norfolk, and after highlighting the key rotting organs of the English polity, a great applause ensued, in which he announced the launch of a new political party. Restore Britain .
Historians have always known the power of leadership. Lord Andrew Roberts, a preeminent expert on Sir Winston Churchill and a member of the House of Lords, has spoken frankly about his belief in the enormous effect of leadership on a country. Many people have probably experienced similar things in their workplace; good leadership, good management, can drastically alter success and the work environment. The moral character, attitude, philosophy, and constitution of mind, of the leader reverberates down the hierarchy and throughout the state even to the smallest places. Leadership is essential. Mr Bill Ackman, an American activist investor, has spoken about his focus on governance when he turns around badly run companies. Leadership is his primary focus.
This is the primary attraction of Restore Britain. The leader, Rupert Lowe has a background to prove his ability. He has the backing of Elon Musk, a man whom it seems foolish to question at this point. And good moral fibre. And conviction.
Strong leadership, by people of moral character, is clearly paramount for any sort of system. Aristotle, in his Politics, says that rule should be by the best of us. And he should know what he's talking about, having been advisor to Alexander the Great. His other important idea, is that only the well-constituted state enables the good man and the good statesman to coexist . Which brings us to the relevance of the constitution.
Which brings us to the next point. The English state has been poorly constituted since Blair. He uprooted the thousand year old implicit constitution, which had been forged slowly, and carefully, and successfully, for centuries. He uprooted our unwritten constitution and our constitutional norms, with a rigidly rational Liberalism. Thus, the state cannot produce the good statesman and the good man, in its current manifestation. It requires a certain revolutionary action. That is, one man or a group of competent men, to go against the status quo to get this done.
Conservatives naturally regard these sorts of revolutionary action or talk with disdain. But I would challenge them; there is clearly little left to conserve. If the system is not working, then like the merry band of men lead by Robin Hood, or the small group of highly competent and well-educated men who forged the American constitution, a certain type of revolutionary action is harsh but necessary. This might make old conservatives bitter, but alas it is required.
This is where MP Rupert Lowe, and his new political party Restore Britain, enter the scene. They are truely Traditional Conservatives . What seems to have happened to the Conservative party over the past two decades, is that they have decayed within the Blairite framework. They pushed Classical Liberalism too hard. It's that simple.
Reform UK was formed with a Classical Liberal impetus, it seems. The Spectator, UnHerd, and GB News, seem to be Reform-backing media enterprises wearing the flag of Classical Liberalism. But it is now absolutely manifest that Classical Liberalism only works within the framework of Traditional Conservatism. Broadly, the rift we are seeing on the right of politics between Reform and Restore can essentially be boiled down to a difference in core philosophy of this kind. It is obvious that Liberalism has died, and actually we are living through the end of the Enlightenment. Reform UK's failure to understand this is why they will fail in government, and why it's important that we help Restore Britain to win.
Like Russell Crowe in Master and Commander, a good man must lead the ship. This film, about a British man-of-war sailing the seas in isolation and chasing the French, is about leadership. The great spectre of Admiral Nelson hangs over the crew, and he is whispered about around the dining table like a myth. Yet one can argue that it was easier at that time for the good statesman and the good man to coexist, as enabled by the old English constitution. In the time that we live in now, the constitution has been altered. Any action against the status quo must thus be a kind of revolution. As history has shown, perhaps most effectively in the enormous success story of the American Revolution, it is sometimes necessary for a small group of highly competent men to act in a certain manner to fix the way of things. Restore Britain, with a principled, Traditional Conservative leader, who has experience, and who has conviction and grit, is the only sensible option left for the United Kingdom.