Keir Starmer has been accused of ‘descending into the gutter’ after claiming Nigel Farage was an ‘enemy’ of Britain.
The Prime Minister triggered a bitter war of words when he used his speech at the Labour Party conference to repeatedly attack the Reform UK leader, questioning his patriotism just days after branding his immigration policies ‘racist’.
In a further sign that Labour risks importing the toxic political culture of the United States in its pursuit of poll-leading Reform, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy made a poisonous claim that Mr Farage had ‘flirted with the Hitler Youth’, which he was forced to withdraw.
Mr Farage, who already needs personal security following a string of death threats, accused Sir Keir of putting a target on his back and ‘inciting’ the ‘radical Left’ against him and his supporters, and invoked the murder of American conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Writing in Wednesday's Daily Mail, he vowed to take revenge at the ballot box, pledging to ‘teach Keir Starmer a lesson’ in next May’s elections.
