PM's fault that Farage mob's in a purple patch

own-goals were a big reason for Labour's kicking by Reform.

- KEVIN MAGUIRE

TURQUOISE Trumpism threatens Labour after destroying the Tories - and Keir Starmer is to blame.

The Prime Minister pushed traditionally Labour working class voters into the embrace of trickster Nigel Farage. Runcorn was the revenge of ICI retirees on modest occupational pensions who lost winter fuel allowances.

Doncaster's Labour Mayor Ros Jones blamed that and welfare cuts plus the impact of National Insurance rises on small firms for only narrowly beating Reform.