Nigel Farage hits back at Sir Keir Starmer as he accuses Labour of inciting violence against Reform voters: ‘He’s unfit to be PM!’ |
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has hit back at what he called “obsessive attacks” from Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Labour’s conference.
Mr Farage said he had “never before seen one individual so dominate” a rival party’s gathering, adding that Labour had launched “a constant attack” on him, his party and its policies.
The Reform UK leader accused Sir Keir Starmer and his Cabinet of “descending into the gutter” because they could not defeat Reform “on the arguments.”
He insisted his party would continue to push for deportations of illegal migrants, restricting benefits to British citizens only, and the removal of foreign criminals.
Mr Farage claimed Labour had branded such positions “racist and immoral” accusing the Prime Minister of implying Reform voters and supporters were racist too.
Addressing that nation within minutes of the Labour conference ended, Nigel Farage said: “I don’t normally worry about abuse being thrown at me.
“I’ve got kind of used to it over the course of the last few years, but to accuse countless millions of being racist is a very, very low blow.
“Why? Well, this language will incite and encourage the radical left.
It is really very shocking to hear the government ministers say what Lammy said today. The PM should know better. The problem is their supporters are so active on other sites you can see how effective their remarks are. I think Nigel has a point: the government are making us easy prey for anyone anywhere, and I hope that it is possible to either sue them or make them retract every word, because come the next elections there will be trouble if they don’t. I wonder if they realise what they have done. It is one thing to lay into a party leader, but quite another to make the supporters feel at risk of trouble. All that flag waving, too: why? were they trying to say not all flag wavers are far right? To follow that up with the remarks they did, makes that a nonsense too
“I’m thinking of Antifa and other organisations like that. It directly threatens the safety of our elected officials and our campaigners, and, frankly, in the wake of the Charlie Kirk murder, I think this is an absolute disgrace.”
Mr Farage said that the Prime Minister’s speech at the conference was a last attempt to improve Labour’s position in the wake of Reform.
He said: “This is a desperate last throw of the dice from a Prime Minister who is in deep trouble. A Prime Minister who can’t even command the support of half of his own party, but, I’m sorry to say, I now believe that he is unfit to be the Prime Minister of our country.”
In his speech at the conference Mr Starmer said: “When was the last time that you heard Nigel Farage say anything positive about Britain’s future?
“He can’t. He doesn’t like Britain. Doesn’t believe in Britain. He wants you to doubt it as much as he does. So he resorts to grievance.”
The Reform UK leader said he was “not a vindictive person”, but his party will “teach Keir Starmer and the Labour Party a lesson” in the Welsh, Scottish and London elections next May.
He said: “We will teach Starmer a lesson next May, that British political history will never forget.
“I am now, as a result of this week, of the abuse that has been heaped upon our supporters and our voters, more determined than ever.
“Don’t underestimate that.”
Mr Farage also said “Britain is broken and needs fixing”, and insisted his party has a positive vision for the future, claiming Labour’s conference has lacked vision.
He said: “We are going to continue, I’m sorry to say, economic, social and cultural decline.
“But Starmer is right about one thing, we are facing a big fork in the road.
“He is a human rights lawyer, he will bow down to foreign courts and to outdated treaties, and he has no idea of the division that open borders have caused within our communities, or indeed the anger and the sense of unfairness that people feel over two-tier policing and two-tier justice.”
