PM BLASTS 'TOXIC' FARAGE

Premier says rival 'wants to tear our communities apart', He also accuses FM Swinney of 'not taking responsibility'

- PAUL HUTCHEON

KEIR Starmer has branded Nigel Farage a “toxic disgrace” after he criticised the number of Glasgow schoolchildren who do not speak English as a first language.

The Prime Minister also accused the Reform UK leader of backing a “racist” policy of wanting to deport migrants who have lived in Britain for years.

Starmer's attacks on Farage were made during a trip to a community centre in Glasgow yesterday.

It was the PM's first foray to Scotland after a Budget that scrapped the two-child benefit cap and cut £150 off energy bills.

He tore into Farage, who claimed that nearly one in three pupils in the city speak English as a second language.

Farage also said: "This is not diversity, as the left always preach, this actually is the cultural smashing of Glasgow."

Starmer hit back yesterday, saying: "It's a disgrace. He's a toxic, divisive disgrace. All he wants to do is tear communities apart. In Glasgow, the diversity, the compassion, is celebrated. It's part of not just Glasgow but Scotland.