Rupert Lowe, the leader of Restore Britain and MP for Great Yarmouth, has become the first British politician to sign the Save Europe Act — a pan-European initiative demanding an immediate halt to all non-European immigration, mass deportations and the preservation of what its founders call Europe’s “ethnocultural identity.”
The act was unveiled on 30 May at a Remigration Summit in Porto, Portugal by Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek, who announced it as the “first patriotic European Citizens’ Initiative.” Lowe’s prominent endorsement was celebrated by Vlaardingerbroek on X, where she wrote: “Thank you, Rupert Lowe, for your tireless efforts to Restore Britain, for your unwavering courage, and now for supporting the Save Europe Act. We are honoured to have you as a first signer.”
The act calls on the European Union to immediately halt all non-European immigration — both legal and illegal — secure external borders, reform asylum processes and establish a comprehensive Europe-wide remigration system covering the deportation of illegal migrants, failed asylum seekers and those deemed unintegrated into European society. Its preamble frames the initiative as a defence of the “collective heritage” and “national sovereignty” of Europe’s native peoples.
Lowe is joined by a roster of prominent right-wing figures across Europe, including AfD’s Björn Höcke in Germany, Polish MEP Dominik Tarczyński and far-right activist Martin Sellner. The initiative is currently in its pre-launch phase with nearly 44,000 signatures secured toward a 100,000 target required for formal registration as an official EU Citizens’ Initiative. Its organisers are ultimately seeking one million signatures from across the EU — plus support from the UK — to force the European Commission to formally meet with them and consider their demands. The strongest support so far has come from Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Lowe founded Restore Britain as a movement in 2025 and registered it as a political party in early 2026 after leaving Reform UK. He has consistently pushed for hardline immigration policies including mass deportations and stronger cultural preservation measures, positioning Restore Britain as a more uncompromising alternative on immigration than Nigel Farage’s party. The Makerfield by-election, in which Restore Britain candidate Rebecca Shepherd is standing against both Labour’s Andy Burnham and Reform UK’s Robert Kenyon, has already highlighted the tensions that right-wing vote splitting can create — a concern some critics of the Save Europe Act have also raised, arguing that endorsing such an initiative risks alienating moderate voters the right needs to win.
Supporters of the act have praised it as a long-overdue statement of intent on border sovereignty and cultural continuity. Critics have labelled it far-right and legally unworkable, pointing to the significant hurdles posed by international human rights law, non-refoulement rules and the logistical scale of the remigration it proposes. Whether the initiative gathers sufficient momentum to register as a formal EU Citizens’ Initiative — let alone force policy change — remains to be seen.
