RUPERT Lowe has remained silent despite outrage at his dismissal of the Dunblane massacre as “one murder”.
The Restore Britain leader sparked fury after dismissing the March 1996 tragedy before complaining about his father’s shooting pistols being “taken away” as a result of the strict gun laws that were put in place as a result.
The MP for Great Yarmouth made the comments on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
While Restore Britain issued a brief statement on Thursday, they refused to apologise for Lowe’s comments, and instead doubled down.
And more than 24 hours later, Lowe has remained silent on the backlash to his comments on Twitter/X, where he has posted repeatedly about other issues.
It comes as Restore's only councillor in Scotland has responded to Lowe’s widely condemned comments.
Lowe has instead reposted several clips from his podcast appearance – on the BBC, Pakistan and deporting “illegal immigrants” – but notably not his comments on Dunblane.
He posted a tribute to former Brexit Party MEP and former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe, who died aged 78. It later emerged that police had launched a murder probe into her death, with a 26-year-old man arrested.
He also shared a letter to Labour MP Afzal Khan, who reported Lowe to parliamentary authorities over his comments about Sharia courts and Islam on the podcast.
Lowe, who has almost 880,000 followers on Elon Musk’s platform, posts on the social media site numerous times a day.
Ann was a patriot - she took absolutely no nonsense and had a wonderful sense of humour. She will be missed. pic.twitter.com/i6J6SE6l3w
— Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10) July 10, 2026
One post – in response to Khan – which read “I will not be silenced by Muslim MPs over my criticism of Islamic practices that have no place in Britain” at just before 7pm on Thursday, has had over 850,000 views and 74,000 likes.
We told how Lowe, while discussing gun laws in the UK, told the Joe Rogan Experience podcast: “They don’t want the public to have guns. As you probably know they banned handguns in the late 90s because there was a murder up in Dunblane.”
Rogan then asked: “One murder?”
Lowe said: “One murder.”
He then went on: “So everybody, my father used to shoot pistols for Oxford University and he had, he’s dead now bless him, but he had all his pistols taken away.”
The comments sparked fury in Scotland, with Keith Brown, the SNP’s depute leader and the MSP for Dunblane, calling them “beyond despicable”.
Kenny Ross, who lost his five-year-old daughter Joanna that day, told LBC: "Thirty years have passed and people forget what we had to go through and I wouldn't want anyone else to go through that. It's people like him that are very ignorant and selfish."
On Thursday, we told how Restore Britain have stood by their leader’s comments and refused to apologise.
“Rupert was clearly referring to one incident”, a spokesperson for the party claimed.
Lowe entered the UK parliament as a Reform MP before becoming an independent, and then setting up Restore Britain as a new party.
Restore’s policies include mass deportations, a ban on Halal and Kosher meat, an end to “every trace of DEI [diversity, equality, and inclusion] across all government departments”, a referendum on the death penalty, an inquiry into the safety of Covid vaccines, and to “quash all convictions for non-violent breaches of lockdown”.
Lowe also described himself as a “pureblood” on Rogan’s podcast, because he didn’t take the Covid-19 vaccine.
