Nigel Farage has launched a blistering attack on Sir Keir Starmer following his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference, declaring his words were “despicable” and “beneath contempt”.

Speaking to GB News, the Reform UK leader tore into the Prime Minister’s address, accusing him of “descending into the gutter” with his accusations.

During his speech, Sir Keir claimed Mr Farage has nothing “positive” to say about our country as he “doesn’t like Britain and doesn’t believe in Britain”.

The Prime Minister said: “When was the last time that you heard Nigel Farage say anything positive about Britain’s future?

Nigel Farage has hit out at Keir Starmer’s ‘inciteful’ and ‘despicable’ remarks during his Labour conference speech

“He can’t, he doesn’t like Britain and doesn’t believe in Britain. He wants you to doubt it as much as he does. So he resorts to grievance.”

Delivering his reaction to the remarks, the Reform leader told GB News: “What I heard was an entire Labour conference totally dominated by the conversation about one individual. That individual not even being a member of the Labour Party, namely me.

“The level of obsession, speech after speech from every single cabinet minister, I promise you, it’s quite unlike anything I’ve ever seen or heard in my entire lifetime of following politics.”

Expressing his outrage at Sir Keir, Mr Farage fumed: “I think that what the Prime Minister did today was inciteful, genuinely inciteful. I think he descended into the gutter, and he took the rest of his cabinet with him.

Don’t you worry Mr Farage! All the rubbish spouted by Labour was to their own! No one else was listening! As usual, the useless waste of space, known unaffectionately as Starmer and Labour, had NOTHING else to say, discuss or debate other than the wonderful Mr Farage and Reform. They dare not make any more promises because they are unable to commit to anything! They have failed in every aspect of government and governing! They are falling apart at the seams. They blame themselves for nothing! They are pathetic. Now they cut your security! Hoping you’ll back down! Wrong again! Your mission is that of saving our country, unlike Starmers whose only mission is to save HIS face! Too vain, too selfish, too self absorbed to step aside and let someone else have a go at running Labour. That proves his mission is NOT, albeit through Labour, to save our beautiful country, it is to save himself from failure! Too late for that now!

“To constantly say that Reform policies are racist, when frankly, all we want to do is make sure that benefits are only paid to British citizens, not to foreign nationals.

“All we want to do are deport those who illegally come into our country across the English Channel. I mean, this is all we want to do, what normal countries do.”

Nigel Farage hit back at the ‘obsessive’ remarks from the Prime Minister in a speech on Thursday

Admitting he is “genuinely fearful” of the impact such remarks will have on him, Mr Farage said: “I’m big enough and ugly enough and have security and all the rest of it to look after myself.

“But if you incite in this way by calling people racist, surely that has shades of what happened to my late friend Charlie Kirk, who they constantly called racist and Nazi, bigoted, transphobic, all of those words, and I genuinely am fearful. I’m fearful for our elected officers around the country.

“I’m fearful for our campaigners. I think, frankly, what Starmer has done is despicable beneath contempt.”

Criticising Labour policy, the Reform leader accused the Prime Minister of offering “similar policies” despite branding their measures “racist”.

He explained: “It’s incoherent, isn’t it? Because on the day after he first called us racist, his Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, laid out a policy on people coming into Britain that, on the face of it, wasn’t dissimilar to what we’d said last week.

“So he’s trying to play all ends against the middle, it is totally incoherent.”

Branding Sir Keir’s decision to attack Reform repeatedly is the “biggest mistake” he could make, Mr Farage told GB News: “The one thing that’s really clear from this Labour conference is there is no plan.

“There is no clear vision, there are just a series of platitudes and soundbites. There’s no meaning whatsoever.

“And I personally believe that he’s made the biggest mistake of his political career.

“If you say that wanting to control immigration is racist, you are insulting and abusing over half of this country. I don’t see how he rose back from that.”

Farage concluded: “And I believe all of this, all of this was a desperate last throw of the dice for a Prime Minister just a year into his term, who is now the most unpopular prime minister ever recorded in modern times.

“Rather than trying to take us on on policies, they’ve decided to go for abuse, they’ve decided to go for the gutter.

“And I think fair minded people in this country, when they spend a bit of time and look at this, won’t like it and it will bar on them very badly indeed.”