In July 2025, Lauren Southern accused Andrew Tate of raping her. Following the accusation, Tommy Robinson attempted to discredit Southern’s accusations. Now, Southern has returned to dispute Robinson’s defence:

A bit of free speech and speaking truth to power for you all this morning x https://t.co/aY4c4q8hyR pic.twitter.com/CuS8XDzIYi

— Lauren Southern (@Lauren_Southern) September 22, 2025

Lauren Southern: accusations

Lauren Southern was touring English-speaking nations in 2018 and working with local far right figures. In this early part of her career, Southern was linked to the ‘alt right’ and accused of ‘tiptoeing at the precipice of outright white nationalism’. A year earlier in 2017, she released a video promoting the ‘great replacement theory‘, which is a white nationalist conspiracy theory.

Southern made the accusations against Tate in her memoir This Is Not Real Life. Around the release, she released certain chapters for free via SubStack, with the rationale being she didn’t want to ‘profit’ from the accusations. Southern writes that she travelled to Romania with Robinson in 2018, which is before Tate rose to international prominence.

In one of the chapters, Southern writes:

I’d rather not give a detailed account, so I’ll keep it simple. He carried me back to the hotel room and asked me to sleep beside him. I said yes. I was incredibly intoxicated, and some part of me convinced myself that because he was Tommy’s friend he wasn’t particularly dangerous. It was a poor decision, but it happened. He kissed me. I wasn’t expecting it, and I wasn’t looking for it, but I kissed him back briefly and then told him I wanted to sleep. I was extraordinarily tired. He wanted to go further. I said no, very clearly, multiple times, and tried to pull his hands off me. He put his arm around my neck and began strangling me unconscious. I tried to fight back. He repeatedly strangled me every time I regained enough consciousness to pull at his arms. I’d prefer not to share the rest. It’s pretty obvious.

Multiple women have accused Tate of raping and strangling them since he became a globally recognised figure in the 2020s. In her latest video, Southern claims to have a hospital report from 2018 documenting strangulation.

Response to Tommy Robinson

In her response to Robinson, Lauren Southern says:

Tommy, long time no see. I appreciate you taking the time to respond to the claims I made recently with a video of your own… I apologise for my late reply, you know that old saying about the truth taking a minute to get its shoes on.

Southern shows several clips in which Robinson claims Southern travelled back to Romania to see Tate after the alleged assault. Southern disputes this, saying:

I went once to Romania with you – one entry, one exit – in 2018, when you took me to a business meeting to meet your pimp friend.

Speaking on Tate’s alleged victims, Southern says:

There are 40 plus victims – known victims – women and girls – British women and minors – the very people you claim to protect. This isn’t just about our egos or our reputations. This is a much bigger case than that.

She also says:

you are being lied to. You are being lied to by people who are stealing your money, defending sex traffickers and covering up their crimes, and who have very different missions privately than what they are telling you their missions are publicly.

Southern claims she was taken to meet Tate under false pretences. She states she was there for a business opportunity, but alleges Tate “bragged” in a group chat he was ‘never going to invest a fucking dime because he’s a pimp who doesn’t give girls money’.

HOPE not hate

HOPE not hate monitors the activity of ‘far-right extremists’ in the UK. The group wrote the following on Robinson in 2022:

Despite presenting himself as a protector of children and women, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon has repeatedly failed to confront child sexual exploitation and abuse within his own team and amongst his supporters.

In that article, they report the following (note: they use Robinson’s legal name, which is ‘Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’):

Lennon has consistently ignored or even defended occurrences of these crimes in his own ranks, proving that he is more concerned with attacking Muslims than actually combatting CSE or challenging sexual violence.

Notoriously, in June 2010 Lennon’s close friend and ally Richard Price was convicted of making four indecent images of children, and possessing cocaine and crack cocaine. The vile images were found on his computer by police after he was arrested for disturbances at an EDL demonstration.

Far from condemning Price’s crimes, the EDL launched a campaign for his release. Lennon himself wholeheartedly supported Price, claiming he had been “stitched up” and that “Price has no idea how they were on his computer.”[ii] When Lennon’s claims became untenable, he switched positions and finally condemned him.

Lauren Southern addresses Robinson’s claim that HOPE not hate are paying people “tens of thousands of pounds” to discredit far-right figures, showing a video in which Robinson says:

They liaise between the media and the person. So they’ll go give a girl 20 grand; then they’ll line up BBC to interview the girl.

So BBC’s hands are clean. They haven’t paid anyone.

In a second video, he claims “they paid the girls”, and speculates they’ve likely been in contact with every one of Tate’s accusers.

Responding to this, Southern says:

I know I didn’t get paid. And I know that there’s no proof for any of the other women getting paid – the 40 plus other known victims. Unless you have some? Feel free to post it.

No one’s getting paid, except for you, actually. You got $30,000 from the Tate brothers, which is really curious. Or is it just 30 pieces of silver? You’ll have to remind me.

Seriously, though, the only ones who seemingly are getting any money for any of this conversation are the ones supporting the sex traffickers.

.Southern also says:

No one knew who Tate was back in 2018 when you took me to see him for this business meeting. And yet that same year, I go and get a hospital report documenting strangulation five years before it would be reported publicly that that was what he did to other victims. …

So is the idea that… these left-wing NGOs came and found me, and we all took a time machine back to 2018, because they needed that report then to do a hit job on him now in 2025?

What are you talking about?

It makes no sense.

Featured image via James English (Wikimedia) / Lauren Southern (Wikimedia) / James English (Wikimedia)

By Willem Moore

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