23 h. ago Keir Starmer playing the race card against Farage is straight out of Macron's playbook, writes JASON GROVES

'Do you think it's a racist policy,' the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg asked the Prime Minister on Sunday as they discussed Reform's plan to scrap indefinite leave to remain.

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29 h. ago Badenoch brushes off defection of former Tory armed forces minister to Reform

Sarah Atherton lost her seat in last year’s general election.

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39 h. ago Reform’s suggestions Starmer is inciting violence ‘offensive’, minister says

Home Office minister Mike Tapp also insisted that the Home Office would not be involved in any decision to cut Nigel Farage’s security.

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59 h. ago Keir Starmer in humiliating climbdown as he insists 'Farage is not racist'

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was questioned on if he thought Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was racist after criticising his immigration policy

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66 h. ago Reform leader Nigel Farage is not a racist, says Prime Minister

The comments come after Sir Keir said Reform migration policy was ‘racist’ and ‘immoral’.

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3 d. ago Nicola Sturgeon says Nigel Farage is 'selling snake oil' with Reform UK party

The former first minister spoke about the Reform UK leader on Monday evening at Wigtown Book Festival, where she was discussing her new memoir, Frankly.

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3 d. ago Nicola Sturgeon reveals she has started writing 'counterfactual political thriller'

Former first minister also accused Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of ‘selling snake oil’

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3 d. ago Keir Starmer speech: Prime Minister lumps SNP in with Reform, claiming both 'want Britain to fail'

Sir Keir also had a couple of jabs at Gordon Brown in his keynote speech.

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3 d. ago Starmer seeks to restore pride in Britain amid plans to take on Reform

The Prime Minister put controlling immigration and growing the economy at the forefront of his proposals to renew the UK.

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3 d. ago Farage says PM’s branding of Reform immigration policy as racist is a ‘disgrace’

The Reform UK leader said Labour’s rhetoric ‘threatens the safety’ of his party’s activists.

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3 d. ago Starmer sets out plan to take on Reform UK in ‘fight for soul of our country’

Sir Keir Starmer set out his plans for national renewal as he addressed Labour’s conference in Liverpool.

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3 d. ago Reform is a threat to national security, says First Minister

Baroness Eluned Morgan made the comments at First Minister’s Questions after the former leader of Reform UK in Wales admitted to accepting bribes.

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3 d. ago Nigel Farage a ‘snake oil salesman’ comparable to Andrew Tate, says No 10 chief secretary

Ministers signal Labour will take stronger approach to attacking Reform rather than just ‘respond to crazy things they’re saying’UK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer’s new No 10 enforcer has compared Nigel Farage to the influencer Andrew Tate, saying he is a “snake oil salesman” who is taking working-class boys down a dark path.Darren Jones, the No 10 chief secretary to the prime minister, said Labour was going to take a more “muscular approach to attacking Reform” and it would be “more proactive than just responding to the crazy things they’re saying”. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Starmer hits out at Farage in Labour party conference speech

Prime minister called Reform UK leader a ‘snake oil merchant’ talking down his own country

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4 d. ago Labour AND the Tories betrayed young people by making us compete for jobs with foreign workers. Now Rachel Reeves wants to do even more damage, writes JACK ANDERTON

The Prime Minister yesterday described the Reform plan - to ask those with ILR status to reapply for a visa and potentially deport those rejected - as 'racist' and 'immoral'. This insults millions of Britons.

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5 d. ago Starmer decries Reform’s ‘racist’ plans as ministers escalate attacks on Farage

PM says immigration proposals could tear country apart as Labour delegates gather for first day of party conferenceKeir Starmer has decried Reform UK’s “racist” plans to revoke the rights of thousands of people to live in Britain, as a number of cabinet ministers escalated attacks on Nigel Farage on the first day of the Labour party conference.The prime minister said Farage’s plans to revoke indefinite leave to remain for families who may have spent years working in Britain could “tear this country apart”, though he said he understood that many people tempted to vote for Reform were frustrated at the slow pace of change. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago First Minister Eluned Morgan claims Reform plan to 'flog and frack everything that moves' in Wales

Eluned Morgan admitted that the "polls are not looking good" for Labour

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5 d. ago ‘Prospect of chaos’ if Reform or Plaid win in Wales – Welsh First Minister

Baroness Eluned Morgan said jobs in Wales could be ‘on the line’ if the party loses the Caerphilly by-election and is unable to get a budget through.

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5 d. ago Starmer urges Labour to unite for ‘fight of our lives’ ahead of conference

UK prime minister calls key Reform policy ‘racist’ as he focuses fire on Nigel Farage’s party

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5 d. ago Keir Starmer attacks ‘racist’ Farage plan to deport people settled in the UK

Prime minister says Reform proposal to abolish indefinite leave to remain could ‘tear this country apart’Labour conference – live updatesKeir Starmer has attacked Reform UK’s plan to deport thousands of people already legally living in the UK as “racist” and “immoral”, as he said that Labour had a generational struggle ahead with the populist right.The prime minister, in Liverpool for his party conference, said he did not think that Nigel Farage’s party was trying to appeal to racists, and that he understood people tempted to vote for Reform were frustrated and wanted change. Continue reading...

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