Rupert Lowe
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1,164 appearances
9 recordings
8 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 9 Jul
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I've always been interested in it, and I fought against the Maastricht Treaty, which was the first sort of major surrender of our sovereignty, or one of the first, and the 72 European Communities Act was the first, which was the biggest, one of the big surrenders.
But then you had the Maastricht Treaty,
obviously the Single European Act Maastricht Treaty.
And I stood as an MP in my own Cotswold constituency where I live in 97, kept my deposit fighting to save the pound with Sir James Goldsmith, who never gets enough credit for what he did.
Because if we'd lost the pound and we become part of the Euro, none of what we're doing now would be happening because once you lose your currency, you lose your sovereignty.
Anyway, we saved the pound and David Cameron's referendum actually happened because all three parties made a promise to have a referendum before they signed up for the euro.
So I've been...
involved in politics peripherally but i you know i i've been in the city 20 years i ran a premier league football club uh for 10 years built a football stadium i've done lots of other things in my life i've lived in japan i've lived in brazil i've seen lots of different parts of the world and lots of different cultures uh but i i got elected as an mp when i was 67 years old and
I think, you know, I've got probably more experience than most of my fellow MPs in Parliament, both from travelling a lot and also from running multiple businesses involved in obviously finance.
And you mentioned the City of London.
The City of London is a tragic story.
When I was young, it was the most vibrant place in the world, obviously, with the U.S.
doing lots of financings in the Eurobond market and other sort of financings of nascent young companies and everything else and flotations.
But it's basically been regulated out of existence to the extent that London is no longer.
It's a shadow of its former self.
And I laughed when Rachel Reeves, the deficient chance of Oryx Checker, was talking about
uh regulating for growth well i i had to point out in the chamber that you deregulate for growth but these people are just honestly they've got no idea so so look i i've always been involved in politics to your point do i did i come into this to to to uh become prime minister no i i came in to actually help nigel farage to achieve that but for some reason he decided i was
not the right person to be alongside him.
You'll have to ask him why that was.
But I do think that if we haven't won an election and installed a group of sensible people under some strong leadership by 29, I think we are heading for a massive catastrophe in Britain.
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