British Prime Minister Keir Starmer: Britain faces an era-defining choice

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has warned that Britain faces an era-defining choice between Labour and the populist right, launching a scathing attack on Nigel Farage, saying the "reformer" leader neither likes nor believes in Britain, BNR reported.

In a speech at the ruling Labour Party's annual conference, which outlines the battle lines for the next general election, the prime minister and party leader said the United Kingdom was at a crossroads where it "can choose decency or division, renewal or decline". In an unusually impassioned speech to a hall of flag-waving delegates, Starmer said he was fighting a "fight for the soul" of the country. on the side against "Reform UK", telling those who did not vote for his party that this was their fight too.

The prime minister did not repeat his accusation, made in an interview with the BBC on Sunday, that Farage's immigration policy was "racist", but he promised to combat racist rhetoric. "Freedom of speech is a British value - we have protected it for centuries. But if you are inciting racist violence and hatred, that is not an expression of concern - that is a crime," Keir Starmer said.

The prime minister arrived in Liverpool for the conference facing serious questions about his leadership as the Labour Party lags behind "Reform UK" in the polls, and his personal rating is the lowest in the history of such surveys.

In his speech, Starmer also touched on many other sensitive topics such as taxes and migration, but the "reformers" were in the spotlight because they are expected to be the biggest threat to Labour in the next general election.