Steve Laws
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| Leader of Remigration Now | |
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| Member of the Homeland Party National Council | |
| In office 2024 – 21 April 2025[1] | |
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| Party | Restore Britain (Since 2026) |
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| Movement | Remigration Ethnic nationalism Far-right activism |
| Website | stevelawsreport |
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Steven John Laws is an English far-right and ethnic nationalist political activist. Laws engages in anti-immigrant activism and is an advocate for remigration.
Political career
[edit ]According to Hope not Hate, as of February 2026, Laws is primarily known for his online activism on X. His anti-immigrant activism in the United Kingdom since 2019 has included "migrant hunting", in which he helped to popularise, involving filming arrivals of immigrants in Dover.[2]
Laws has been a member of various far-right organizations and parties such as For Britain, the UK Independence Party (UKIP), and the English Democrats. Laws has additionally been associated with the Nazi-apologist YouTuber Sam Wilkes (a.k.a. Zoomer Historian) a follower of the Holocaust-denier David Irving;[3] [4] and the neo-Nazi hate group Patriotic Alternative, speaking at the party's conferences in 2022 and 2025.[2]
According to Searchlight, Laws was previously a prominent figure within the Homeland Party, where he was the South East regional organiser and a member of its governing National Council, Laws left in April 2025 due to belief that the party had become too soft on remigration, critiquing what he perceived to be a moderation of the party in favour of civic nationalists.[5] [6] Following his departure from the Homeland Party, Laws founded the "Remigration Now" pressure group.[2]
Laws has participated in three elections – the 2022 Southend West by-election, in which he ran for UKIP, receiving 2.7% of the votes cast (400 votes total);[7] [8] the 2024 general election, during which he ran in the constituency of Dover and Deal for the English Democrats, receiving 0.4% of the vote (185 votes total);[9] and the 2025 Kent County Council election, in which he stood in the constituency of Folkestone East for the Homeland Party, receiving 1% of the vote (50 votes).[10]
In April 2025, Laws would depart from the Homeland Party following the appointment of an organiser with an LGBT background. He would later go on to form his own pressure group, Remigration Now.[11]
In February 2026, after Restore Britain was founded as a political party, Laws expressed support for it and joined.[12] [13] According to Laws, he has been in active contact with the party's leadership.[14] In April 2026, The Times reported that Laws urged his supporters to become candidates and organisers for Restore Britain, in order to "create a stronghold in that party". Laws had argued that the party is "well to the right" of other far-right parties including Britain First, the British Democratic Party, and the Homeland Party. In response, Laws described the report by The Times as a "pathetic smear campaign".[15]
Views
[edit ]The Times described Laws as a "prominent neo-fascist" and self-proclaimed "proud" racist who has "called for the removal of all "non-whites" from the UK";[15] The National described Laws as far-right and as promoting racist, Islamophobic, and antisemitic beliefs.[16]
According to Hope not Hate, Laws has continuously expressed his desire to return to an ethnically homogeneous Britain, calling for the expulsion of all ethnic minorities from the United Kingdom, including those born in the country and with British citizenship, in what he calls "total remigration". His proposed concept consists of a multi-stage plan that starts with incentives for illegal migrants to leave the UK through the withdrawal of social services and bans for practices like halal slaughter, and ends in forced deportations and the revocation of citizenship.[2] [17] [18]
References
[edit ]- ^ Gale, Paul (April 21, 2025). "Crisis in Homeland Party as leading figure quits | Searchlight". searchlightmagazine.com.
- ^ a b c d "Case file: Steve Laws and Remigration Now". HOPE not hate. Retrieved 2026年02月26日.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:5was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "'Zoomer Historian' Unmasked: We name the Hitler apologist with a huge online following". Hope not Hate . 2025年03月03日. Retrieved 2025年03月23日.
- ^ Gale, Paul (2025年09月26日). "Two leading fascist activists arrested | Searchlight". searchlightmagazine.com. Retrieved 2026年02月26日.
- ^ Gale, Paul (2025年04月21日). "Crisis in Homeland Party as leading figure quits | Searchlight". searchlightmagazine.com. Retrieved 2026年02月26日.
- ^ "Steve Laws Standing for UKIP in Southend". Archived from the original on 2026年01月14日. Retrieved 2026年02月26日.
- ^ Holmes, Katherine. "Election results". Southend-on-Sea City Council. Retrieved 2026年02月26日.
- ^ "Dover and Deal - General election results 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 2026年02月26日.
- ^ "Election results for Folkestone East, 1 May 2025". democracy.kent.gov.uk. 2025年05月01日. Retrieved 2026年02月26日.
- ^ "Case file: Steve Laws and Remigration Now".
- ^ https://hopenothate.org.uk/case-files-steve-laws
- ^ Quinn, Ben (2026年02月15日). "UK far right lines up behind Rupert Lowe in challenge to Reform". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2026年02月26日.
- ^ Lawrence, David (2026年03月30日). "Steve Laws: Ethnic cleansing extremist claims "daily" contact with Restore Britain top team". HOPE not hate. Retrieved 2026年04月02日.
- ^ a b Dathan, Matt (2026年04月13日). "Neo-fascist leaders back Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain and not Reform". The Times . Retrieved 2026年05月03日.
- ^ "Far-right 'influencer' brags as he meets with House of Lords members". The National. 2025年05月21日. Retrieved 2026年02月26日.
- ^ Nick (2024年03月07日). ""We want to see millions deported": The Extremism of Steve Laws". HOPE not hate. Retrieved 2026年02月26日.
- ^ Nick (2024年06月14日). "Steve Laws: A Blight on the Constituency of Dover & Deal". HOPE not hate. Retrieved 2026年02月26日.