Sir Keir Starmer has stated the subsequent election shall be an “open fight” between Labour and Reform UK.
The prime minister, talking at a convention alongside the leaders of Canada, Australia and Iceland, stated the UK is “at a crossroads”.
“There’s a battle for the soul of this country, now, as to what sort of country do we want to be?” he stated.
“Because that toxic divide, that decline with Reform, it’s built on a sense of grievance.”
It’s the first time Sir Keir has explicitly stated the subsequent election could be a straight battle between his occasion and Reform – and comes the day earlier than the Labour convention begins.
As soon as the Speaker, whose seat is unopposed, and Sinn Fein MPs, who don’t sit in parliament, are accounted for, no different occasion would have the ability to safe extra MPs, so Reform would lead the federal government.
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Sir Keir stated there’s a “right-wing proposition” the UK has not had earlier than, because it has been many years of both a Labour or Tory authorities, “pitched usually pretty much on the centrepiece of politics, the centre ground of politics”.
The PM stated Reform and its chief, Mr Farage, present a “very different proposition” of “patriotic national renewal” below Labour and a “toxic divide”.
He described his Labour authorities of being “capable of expressing who and what we are as a country accurately and in a way where people feel they’re valued and they belong, and that we can actually move forward together”.
Sir Keir referenced a march down Whitehall two weeks in the past, organised by Tommy Robinson, as having “sent shivers through the spines of many communities well away from London”.
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The PM stated Reform presents a ‘poisonous divide
The prime minister stated the selection for voters on the subsequent election, set to be in 2029, “is not going to be the traditional Labour versus Conservative”.
“It’s why I’ve said the Conservative Party is dead,” he added.
“Centre-right parties in many European countries have withered on the vine and the same is happening in this country.”
Reacting to Sir Keir’s feedback, a Reform UK spokesman stated: “For decades, the British people have been betrayed by both Labour and the Conservatives.
“Individuals have voted election after election for decrease taxes and managed immigration, as a substitute, each events have finished the other.
“The public are now waking up to the fact Starmer is just continuing the Tory legacy of high taxes and mass immigration.”
