US EditionKeir Starmer Speech: Prime Minister Lumps SNP in with Reform, Claiming Both 'Want Britain to Fail'
Starmer frames Nigel Farage and the Reform Party as threats to national unity, urging Labour and centrists to fight racism and division, with months of strategic planning behind this shift.
- On Friday Sir Keir Starmer began positioning Nigel Farage, Reform Party leader, as Labour's chief opponent to rally both Labour and centrists at Liverpool.
- Months of strategising within Labour produced a message framing decency and tolerance to unite the British people and appeal to Middle England.
- Labour insiders say the speech steadied Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister's position and gave Labour activists clearer dividing lines with Reform UK amid strong applause for last year's achievements.
- This year’s unaddressed �20-30 billion black hole and next year’s political risks underline limits to rhetoric, as critics warn syntax triumphs while semantics and substantive policy remain absent.
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At the Labour Party Congress, the Prime Minister targeted his rival Farage. Party-internally, a leftist is sawing his chair.
Keir Starmer's Reform-attacking conference speech faces one huge problem, polling guru warns
Sir Keir Starmer's big problem following his 2025 Labour Party Conference speech is that most Britons do think the country is broken, a polling guru has warned.In a snapshot assessment of the Prime Minister's speech, Merlin Strategy founder Scarlett Maguire joined a star-studded panel at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change's fringe event in Liverpool. Explaining how Sir Keir's message is slightly out of kilter with public sentiments, Ms M…
You can choose "decency" with me or a country full of "divisions" under the radical right. That is the message of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is trying to respond to the rise of Nigel Farage in the United Kingdom. At his Labour Party conference, Starmer spoke of a "battle for the soul of the country." It is certainly a battle for the prime minister: never before has a newly elected government become unpopular so quickly. His persona…
7 bombshells as Keir Starmer launches 'enemy' attack in major Labour conference speech - The Mirror
Keir Starmer was met with an eruption of applause as he listed Labour's achievements in the last year, from expanding free school meals to ending fire and rehire practices
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