British PM Starmer urges Labour party to unite to defeat rival Reform UK

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called on his party on Sept 28 to stop “navel-gazing” and unite to defeat Reform UK, accusing the populist party of planning to launch a “racist policy” of mass deportations if it wins power.

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Mr Starmer, whose governing Labour is well behind Reform in the polls, kicked off his party’s annual conference by issuing a rallying cry to party members to direct their anger towards Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage’s Reform, rather than his leadership.

“I’m saying we have got the fight of our lives ahead of us, because we've got to take on Reform. We’ve got to beat them and so now is not the time for introspection or navel-gazing,” he told BBC news. “We need to be in that fight united.”