Sir Keir Starmer has said he believes Labour can “pull this round” as the party goes into its annual conference with the prospect of being overtaken by Reform UK at the next election.
The prime minister said his party, currently riven with division and facing polls which suggest Nigel Farage’s party is on course to win the next election, faces the “fight of our times and we’ve all got to be in it together”.
But he told the Sunday Times: “I think we can pull this round.”
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has labelled Nigel Farage ‘unpatriotic’ and ‘grubby’. (Picture: Maja Smiejkowska/Bloomberg via Getty Images)In an interview with the newspaper published after he arrived in Liverpool for Labour’s party conference this weekend, the PM added: “It is the fight of our times and we’ve all got to be in it together. We don’t have time for introspection, we don’t have time for navel-gazing.
“You’ll always get a bit of that at a Labour Party conference, but that is not going to solve the problems that face this country.”
The fight is “bigger than the Labour Party” because of the “sense of the division that Reform would bring to our country and the shattering of what we are as a patriotic country”, he also said.
Those comments come following a period of damaging speculation of a leadership challenge by Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham.
The UK faces a “fork in the road” at the next election, between Labour and Reform, Sir Keir suggested – while the Tories are “dead”, he claimed.
Earlier, the PM claimed Mr Farage’s party wants to “tear our country apart”, pointing to Reform’s plans to remove indefinite leave to remain for legal migrants as “one of the most shocking things” he had heard them come out with.
In a different interview, this time with the Daily Mirror, Sir Keir called Mr Farage “grubby” and claimed that he is more interested in lining his own pockets than helping working people.
“There is nothing more unpatriotic than pretending you’re going to fix a problem that really matters to people in the full knowledge that you’re not … that is as unpatriotic as you get,” Mr Starmer said.
“Add to that that he spends more time grubbing around in America, trying to make money for himself than he does representing his constituents.”
The latest polling has placed Mr Farage as the most likely next prime minister, with Reform currently on track to win the most parliamentary seats if an election were held, according to both YouGov and More in Common.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves also stepped up Labour’s attack on Mr Farage, suggesting he would be a risk to national security if handed the keys to No 10.
She told a reception in Liverpool: “Who is the party of national security? The Labour Party which faces down and stands up to Vladimir Putin?
“Or Nigel Farage of the Reform party who is an apologist for that dictator?”
With PA
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