Farage “doesn’t like Britain”, the Prime Minister suggested, as he called on the British people to “fight Reform” by “tackling all the problems they prey on”.
“And it isn’t just Farage who crosses it,” he added. “There are also people who should know better, sowing fear and discord across our country. And then when we call it out, they pretend that we’re criticising reasonable concerns about immigration.”
“This great party is proud of our flags. Yet if they’re painted alongside graffiti telling a Chinese takeaway owner to go home, that’s not pride. That’s racism,” he said.
Labour’s grassroots were pleased to hear him make the case against Reform UK so unequivocally, but deploying racism as an argument immediately invited an attack from the right. Almost as soon as Starmer had finished, up popped Farage.
Labour says the accusation of racism is justified because of who Reform would target with its draconian policy to deport some people who have indefinite leave to remain. These people, Labour aides argue, aren’t white European Union citizens or higher earners, who would be exempt under Reform plans.
In the hall in Liverpool, security heavies in black outfits patrolled the aisles. They weren’t risking more hecklers. Labour aides were spread around to encourage “spontaneous” standing ovations.
Burnham had spent the week before, and the first part of conference, sniping at Starmer, imploring Chancellor Rachel Reeves to be “flexible” over borrowing, and criticising the PM’s plans to roll out digital ID. Amid Cabinet criticism and a dawning realisation he had overreached, he was forced into a humiliating climbdown, admitting by Monday evening that Starmer should remain in post.
During the conference, Starmer and Burnham did not meet. By Tuesday, No 10’s frosty attitude had refined into an aloof amusement that Burnham’s attacks had only served to bolster the Prime Minister. Schadenfreude had set in. “You have to take your laughs where you can,” a No 10 source told The i Paper.
The Greater Manchester Mayor is understood not to have ruled out a further challenge should Labour MPs send up the Bat-Signal for him to return to Westminster at an unspecified future point.
Starmer has spent the week insisting his Government had rammed through the legislation and his speech was introduced by Hillsborough campaigner Margaret Aspinall.
“There is only one viable challenger to Keir and that’s Wes but he’s too smart to move until the time is right,” the Cabinet minister said.
“A Labour Party that cannot control spending is a Labour Party that cannot govern in our times,” he warned. And in a nod to the Budget, less than two months away, he added: “It doesn’t get easier from here.”
The Prime Minister found his voice, he swiped right and left, and as conference draws to a close, he lives to fight another day.
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