Nigel Farage and his supporters are not racist, the prime minister has said, despite insisting that the Reform party’s immigration policy is.
The comments come after Sir Keir Starmer and his colleagues stepped up their attacks on Mr Farage’s party, repeatedly branding Reform’s policy to remove the right to remain from some migrants legally living in Britain as “racist” and “immoral”.
Following the embattled PM’s keynote speech at this year’s Labour Party conference, Sir Keir has told Sky News he did not believe Mr Farage was racist.
He said: “No, nor do I think Reform voters are racist.
“They’re concerned about things like our borders, they’re frustrated about the pace of change.
“I’m not for a moment suggesting that they are racist.”
He insisted he had been talking about a “particular policy”, claiming Reform’s plans would see migrants who live in the UK lawfully deported, saying “that to me would tear our country apart”.
The Labour leader, who described Mr Farage as a “formidable politician”, declined to say whether he believed his opponent was courting racists with the policy, but said minorities in the UK felt a “shiver down their throat”.
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— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 1, 2025On Tuesday evening, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy appeared to walk back claims he made to the BBC that the Reform leader had “flirted with Hitler Youth”.
The statement appeared to reference allegations that emerged in 2013 that Mr Farage sang Nazi songs as a schoolboy.
Mr Farage denied the allegations at the time, which stemmed from a 1981 letter reportedly written by his teacher claiming the schoolboy and others marched through a village “shouting Hitler Youth songs”.
Mr Lammy said: “I will leave it for the public to come to their own judgments about someone who once flirted with Hitler Youth when he was younger.”
But in a later interview with the BBC, Mr Lammy said the Reform leader had denied the allegations, saying: “I accept that he has denied it.”
Nigel Farage says his opinion of Sir Keir Starmer has changed after the prime minister’s comments. (Picture: James Manning/PA)He added: “I wasn’t at school with Nigel Farage. I don’t know what songs he sang at school.”
Writing in the Daily Mail, Mr Farage said his opinion of Sir Keir had shifted as a result of the PM’s comments at the conference.
“We might disagree on our worldview, but until this weekend I believed he was a reasonable human being,” he said.
Asked by ITV’s Robert Peston about polling from Ipsos, which suggests he is the least popular prime minister in history, Sir Keir insisted he was committed to leading Labour into the next election.
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