# Restore is a busted flush. But here is how the Right CAN unite to win: NADINE DORRIES

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/restore-is-a-busted-flush-but-here-is-how-the-right-can-unite-to-win-nadine-dorries/
- Published: 2026-08-04T02:58:28+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-04T03:13:23+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/columnists/article-16025659/Restore-busted-Right-unite-NADINE-DORRIES.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Government, Politics, UK, World

## Key points

- Dorries says the Right is split while the Left unites under Burnham
- Claims secret Tory-Restore "alliance" talks collapsed over Lowe's demands
- Tories and Restore both deny any such meeting occurred

## Summary

Daily Mail columnist Nadine Dorries argues that the parties of the British Right - the Conservatives, Reform and Restore - remain dangerously divided while Labour benefits from Andy Burnham courting the Liberal Democrats and Greens into a united Left. She dismisses a public offer of unity from Restore founder Rupert Lowe to co-operate with Reform against Labour, characterising it not as statesmanship but as a desperate bid by Lowe to salvage his political career.

Dorries claims sources told her of a secret meeting on 26 July between Lowe and Conservative representatives, part of a series of talks over the past year aimed at building a "Conservative Alliance" between the Tories and Restore, which would sideline Reform. She alleges Lowe demanded a peerage and the position of deputy prime minister, a demand the Conservatives rejected, ending the meeting acrimoniously, though both the Conservatives and Restore denied to the Daily Mail that any such talks took place.

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