Prime minister expected to warn UK is ‘at a crossroads’ as he sets out plan to counter Nigel Farage and Reform
Keir Starmer will make a major intervention this week, pledging a progressive fightback and promising the UK will reject the division and hate fuelled by the far right.
The move comes ahead of Labour’s conference amid increasing pressure on the prime minister from within his own party, where even senior loyalists have voiced fears that he has not mounted a passionate enough attack on Reform UK and rising racism in Britain.
In a speech later this week, Starmer is expected to say the UK is “at a crossroads” and that the government will lead the fight against “decline and division”.
The address, due to take place alongside other progressive world leaders, is intended to calm concerns among MPs and party members that Labour’s rebuttal of Nigel Farage so far has been based on workability of proposals rather than a moral objection.
