Two women who worked for Rupert Lowe, the former Reform UK MP who was suspended from the party earlier this month, gave “credible” evidence of bullying or harassment by him and his team, according to a report from a KC hired by the party.

The report also disputed Lowe’s statement that the women had only made complaints after they faced internal disciplinary proceedings against them, saying the timeline of events showed this was “incorrect”.

Lowe, whom the KC said had refused to engage with the inquiry process, immediately rejected the findings, calling them “outright lies”.

The lengthy report, compiled by Jacqueline Perry KC, a senior barrister who was paid by Reform, follows a bitter row between Lowe, the Great Yarmouth MP, and Nigel Farage, Reform’s leader, with Lowe being stripped of the party whip on 7 March.

Reform said Lowe had been subject to the two complaints of bullying, and also that he had made threats against the party chair, Zia Yusuf. The second matter is being examined by the Metropolitan police and formed no part of Perry’s report.

Her report details complaints made by two of Lowe’s staff: one, his Westminster office manager, who had spent 14 years previously working in parliament; and the other a case worker in his constituency office.

It said the first woman alleged that she was “the subject to constant criticism meted out unpleasantly and harshly” by an aide to Lowe. When she raised her worries with the MP in December 2024, the report said, he was “dismissive”.

A further attempt to raise her worries with Lowe were “met with hostility and disdain”, the woman said. The report quoted her as saying Lowe “simply made clear that the staffer was ‘his man’ and if she didn’t like it, she could ‘make other arrangements’”. Her formal complaint relates to both the staffer and Lowe.

The case worker in the Great Yarmouth office was, the report said, “subjected to unacceptable remarks made about her from the very inception of her job”.

It said these involved WhatsApp messages from another staffer, calling the woman “weird” and referencing autism. Perry said she had seen the messages “and they do not make for comfortable reading”.

Both women complained they had faced “considerable stress and suffering” through their treatment, the report said.

Perry said she had been asked to look into the issue on 3 March, four days before Lowe lost the whip. Lowe has argued that the investigation and action against him began in response to an interview he did with the Daily Mail criticising Farage, which was published on 5 March.

The KC said she had been told by Lowe’s solicitor that the MP would not formally respond to the allegations, because of the police investigation into the alleged threats. Perry said she could “see no nexus” between the two sets of claims.

In the report, she said she spoke “at length” with the two complainants, whose names are redacted from the report, and that both statements were made separately with no knowledge of what the other was saying.

She concluded: “There is veracity in the complaints from both women which amounts [to] credible evidence” of their claims, adding that Lowe seemingly failed to act on their concerns.

“Mr Lowe has to be responsible for setting the tone in his office and constituency office and thus he is responsible for the acts of both [the staffers] … as well as looking at his own conduct towards [the Westminster staffer],” Perry added.

In a series of lengthy tweets sent on Tuesday afternoon, Lowe rejected any wrongdoing, calling the women’s statements “filled with hearsay, and outright lies based on zero evidence”.

He said the WhatsApp comments were “mildly inappropriate”, taken out of context and did not constitute bullying.

He also disputed the timeline implied in the report, saying he carried out the Daily Mail interview on 25 February, and that Farage’s team knew about its content the next day.

He added: “Reform has deployed woke HR lawfare to smear not only my name, but the reputation of my innocent and decent staff – going as far as to publicly name them. Unprecedented wickedness. It is truly despicable behaviour. I am ashamed to have been part of such a rotten organisation.”