‘Restore Britain’ Political Party Scores Shock Result in Greater Manchester
Something quietly remarkable happened in the Greater Manchester mayoral by-election on 30 July. A party registered only four and a half months earlier finished fourth, beating the Conservatives into fifth. Restore Britain, led by Rupert Lowe and registered with the Electoral Commission on 20 March, took 46,289 first-preference votes — 9 percent of the total. The Tories managed just 41,021 votes, or 8 percent. For