LONDON: Keir Starmer never had much of a political honeymoon. Now some members of his political party are considering divorce. Little more than a year after winning power in a landslide, Britain’s prime minister is fighting to keep the support of his party, and to fend off Nigel Farage, whose hard-right Reform UK has a consistent lead in opinion polls The next election is as much as four years away, but as thousands of Labour Party members gather Sunday for their annual conference beside the River Mersey in Liverpool, lawmakers are growing anxious.

Disastrous polling for Labour comes amid growing questions over Keir Starmer’s leadership of the party

The prime minister said Reform UK’s policies would tear the country apart as he vowed Labour would offer an alternative vision of ‘national renewal’