Asked whether there was any chance of wiping the slate clean and returning to Reform, which withdrew the whip from him on Sunday, he said it was ‘highly unlikely’ and didn’t rule out joining the Tories – or setting up his own party.
Taking aim at Mr Farage, he said: ‘You’ve got to look at the pattern of relations with Nigel throughout his career…almost anybody who’s in his view, threatening him or capable of taking over from him, he tends to fall out with them.’
‘There has been a behavioural problem for some months. Outbursts, anger, that kind of thing.
‘Frankly I’ve tried to, we’ve tried to, put it all to the back of our minds.. And I’m not prejudging anything on the allegations of a bullying culture going on in his offices.
‘But I put it you that any party who had a senior figure who was facing those accusations would have to act in some way.
‘When we found out that one of our MPs was facing these accusations – without prejudging anything we decided to appoint an independent KC to have a look at the situation.
‘Since then, things have got a little bit out of control.’
Reform is meant to be preparing for the by-election in Runcorn and Helsby after disgraced MP Mike Amesbury said he will quit the Commons after punching a constituent.
The former Labour MP was given a 10-week prison term, which was reduced to a suspended sentence after an appeal, leaving him at risk of being ousted from Parliament through the recall process.
The MP told the BBC he would ‘step aside at the earliest opportunity’, meaning a vote could be held at the same time as the local elections on May 1.
Mr Lowe used an interview with the Dan Wootton Outspoken programme to once again deny the accusations against him, branding them ‘absolute drivel’.
He pointed out that the allegations relating to Zia Yusuf, Reform party chairman, weren’t lodged with police until last week despite them allegedly happening in December.
This was after an interview appeared in the Daily Mail last week in which Mr Lowe criticised Mr Farage’s leadership.
He admitted having a ‘robust debate’ with Mr Yusuf on December 13, but denied threatening physical violence.
The MP was asked whether he thought the fallout could be linked to X owner and key member of Donald Trump’s administration Elon Musk, who last year expressed doubt about Mr Farage’s leadership and suggested he might support Mr Lowe.
‘I owe a huge debt to Elon Musk because without my X account which gives me a voice, this may well have ended very differently, because I think in the past anyone who has (been), if you like, a poppy that stood up too tall has been chopped down,’ the former Southampton FC chairman said.
‘I have been thinking about it in my own mind and I sort of wonder whether in a country that I think is becoming increasingly used to lies, somebody who stands up in Parliament and tells the truth is seen as a tall poppy.’
He added that his contact with Mr Musk has been limited to ‘a little bit of DM’ing on Twitter, not big, a thumbs up or whatever, and he retweets quite a lot of what we put on Twitter, or on X’.
‘That’s the extent of it. There is no more to it or less to it than that,’ he said.
Asked whether he would consider forming his own party, the MP said he had not ‘got to the stage yet where I can make any decisions.’
‘You’ve got to look at the pattern of relationships with Nigel, throughout his career, whether it’s Carswell, whether it’s Bloom, whether it’s almost anybody who is, in his view, either threatening him or is capable enough to take over from him, he tends to fall out with them.
‘And I think if you look, they’ve suffered a very similar fate to the one that they’re trying to sentence me to.’
