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Keir's fear is no joke for voters
Scottish Daily Express
|October 04, 2025
THE JOKE reportedly doing the rounds in Liverpool after Sir Keir Starmer's conference speech there went pretty much along these lines.
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"I think I'll go to Reform's conference next year. At least they won't keep banging on about Nigel Farage."
Don't get me wrong. I'm no Farage fan. But I think it was a huge tactical mistake for the PM to make so much of his speech about the Reform leader.
For a start it made him look frightened of him. Yes, Farage and Reform UK were the twin-tusked elephants in the room, but Starmer gave them way too much acknowledgement and space. His attitude should have been more: "Who are these pygmies snapping at my heels?" and less: "Aargh! Look everyone! Monsters!"
This story is from the October 04, 2025 edition of Scottish Daily Express.
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