He was trying to move on from splits in Reform, and at a press conference in Westminster yesterday said 29 councillors had defected to it from the Tories and Lib Dems.
Great Yarmouth MP Mr Lowe currently sits as an independent while Reform investigates claims of bullying and threats of violence against its chairman Zia Yusuf.
Mr Lowe has strenuously denied the claims. Mr Farage said: “You might have noticed that we have been through a little bit of turbulence.
“We thought ‘You know what, let’s just suspend the whip and let’s find out what the truth is... we will get the report from the independent King’s Counse...