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Sir Keir Starmer has said he doesn’t believe Nigel Farage is a racist, despite using the word to condemn one of Reform UK’s flagship immigration policies.
At Labour’s annual party conference in Liverpool, the Prime Minister has trained his focus firmly on the right-wing party as his likely main adversary in the next election.
His main target has been the plan, announced by Reform leader Farage last Monday, to deport hundreds of thousands of people currently living legally in the UK with indefinite leave to remain.
In an interview with the BBC on Sunday, Sir Keir said that idea was both ‘racist’ and ‘immoral’.
He continued the attack in his keynote conference speech yesterday, vowing to ‘fight […] with everything we have’ against those who want to deport ‘people who have lived here for generations’.
Other members of the PM’s cabinet have also picked up the fight, with David Lammy making the eye-catching claim that Farage had ‘flirted with the Hitler Youth’ when he was young.
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The Justice Secretary later rowed back on that remark, which was described by Reform as ‘beneath contempt’.
In an interview with Sky News today, Sir Keir made a distinction between the Reform leader and his policies when asked if he thought Farage was a racist.
He said: ‘No, nor do I think Reform voters are racist.

‘They’re concerned about things like our borders, they’re frustrated about the pace of change, so I’m not for a moment suggesting they are racist.’
The PM later described Farage as a ‘formidable politician’ but suggested he had ushered in a ‘dangerous moment for the country’.
Writing in the Daily Mail, Farage said he had believed Sir Keir was a ‘reasonable human being’ until his remarks this weekend.
He added: ‘Now I’m shocked at his behaviour.
‘I hope that when he wakes up this morning, he feels ashamed of what he has done to British politics over the past few days.’
A YouGov poll released this morning found that almost half of Brits – 47% – believe Reform UK is ‘generally racist’, with 36% saying the party is not racist.
More than four in ten also said they believed the party’s policies and voters specifically are also generally racist.
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Reform vows to deport hundreds of thousands in UK with indefinite leave to remain
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Hundreds of thousands of immigrants legally staying in the UK will be deported if Reform takes over power, the party has vowed.
Leader Nigel Farage has announced Reform would scrap indefinite leave to remain (ILR) for immigrants to the UK – including those already here.
ILR gives people who have moved to the UK from abroad the ability to live and work here for as long as they want.
It’s typically granted to those who have been in the country on a work visa for five years, who have lived here for 10 years or more, or who have family here.
For many people, it is the first step in the path to becoming a British citizen.
This system would be scrapped and replaced with a new scheme in which immigrants to the UK are put on a temporary visa which they must reapply for every five years.
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It would not only apply to new applicants, but to people who are currently in the country on indefinite leave to remain.
In an article for the Daily Express, Reform policy chief Zia Yusuf said: ‘These changes will lead to hundreds of thousands of people having to apply and ultimately losing their settled status in the UK, which will be done on a staggered and orderly basis to allow businesses to train British workers to replace them.
‘Many of those who will lose their leave to remain are entirely dependent on the welfare state and will leave voluntarily upon losing access to benefits.
‘Those that don’t will be subject to immigration enforcement as part of our mass deportation programme.’
Such a system would be massively disruptive for those currently on ILR, who would face a future where the lives they have built in the UK would be thrown into question every five years.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said: ‘Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.
‘They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
‘Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.’
Sir Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats who are currently holding their conference in Bournemouth, branded Reform a ‘threat to our democracy, to things we hold dear, British values – decency, tolerance, respect for the rule of law’.
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Reform UK has come under fire for allowing a conspiracy theorist to peddle ‘extremism’ claims on stage.
The party, which is holding its party conference in Birmingham, has been criticised for allowing a controversial cardiologist, Dr Aseem Malhotra, to address the crowd.
Speaking before Nigel Farage, Dr Malhotra ranted about the pharmaceutical industry, and King Charles’s and Princess of Wales’s health.
He said: ‘It’s highly likely that the Covid vaccines have been a factor, a significant factor, in the cancer of members of the royal family.’
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His claims were met with gasps in the room, Metro’s politics correspondent Craig Munro reported from the conference.
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Dr Malhotra, who is one of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s health advisers in the US, also parroted claims over alleged dangers of the mRNA vaccines, saying that it ‘may be a risk factor for cancer.’
He claimed that ‘many other doctors feel the same way.’
Health Secretary Wes Streeting responded to his speech, calling it ‘dangerous extremism.’

He said: ‘When we are seeing falling numbers of parents getting their children vaccinated, and a resurgence of disease we had previously eradicated, it is shockingly irresponsible for Nigel Farage to give a platform to these poisonous lies.
‘Farage should apologise and sever all ties with this dangerous extremism.’
Other medics have called out Dr Malhotra for his ‘meaningless pseudoscience.’

Professor Brian Ferguson, a professor of viral immunology at the University of Cambridge, said: ‘There is no credible evidence that these vaccines disrupt tumour suppressors or drive any kind of process (biochemical or otherwise) that results in cancer.
‘It is particularly crass to try to link this pseudoscience to the unfortunate incidents of cancer in the royal family and is reminiscent of the ‘died suddenly’ trope which attempted and ultimately failed to link the death of any young person to their vaccination status.
‘This kind of outlandish conspiracy theory only serves to undermine the credibility of those spreading it.’
Prof Ferguson continued: ‘There are repetitions of often used anti-vax tropes that have been extensively disproven.
‘There are numerous, high quality studies that prove the Covid vaccines, including mRNA vaccines, saved millions of lives.
‘Evidence that mRNA vaccines have done more harm than good just does not exist and claims that they did do not stand up to scrutiny.’
Metro has approached Kensington Palace for a comment.
A spokesperson for Reform UK said: ‘Dr Aseem Malhotra is a guest speaker with his own opinions who has an advisory role in the US government. Reform UK does not endorse what he said but does believe in free speech.’
Kennedy Jr, a vocal opponent of vaccinations, has been accused of undermining the US health programmes with his comments.
He has previously described the Covid vaccination as the ‘most deadly in history’ and repeated debunked claims linking jabs and autism.
Kennedy Jr has also sent shockwaves in the US after leaving the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in turmoil after sacking leading figures.
Yesterday, the Reform leader, Farage, was heckled during his speech.
He retorted by shouting ‘boring, boring,’ which he also yelled while being interrupted during the general election campaigning.
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Nigel Farage has hit out at Angela Rayner at the Reform Party conference after she quit as Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary.
The MP for Clacton-on-Sea said her decision to resign over her tax affairs ‘screams to entitlement’.
‘It screams to a government that despite all the promises that this would be a new, different kind of politics is as bad – if not worse – than the one that went before,’ he said on stage at the Birmingham NEC.
He added Sir Keir Starmer’s Cabinet was full of ‘wholly unqualified people’ and joked about Rayner being ‘an accomplished property developer and speculator’.
Farage was originally lined up to speak just after 4pm today, but said he pulled his speech forward after Rayner’s resignation because the Government is ‘deep in crisis’ and ‘not fit to govern’.
But Metro understands this wasn’t widely advertised to attendees of the conference, meaning people were spotted leaving the main hall just moments before Farage took to the stage.
Empty seats were also seen as he began talking. However, some people began to return to the hall after he started his speech.
Farage also said there was a ‘big rift’ in the Labour party and he thinks a general election could take place in 2027.
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‘We’re used to hearing stories of splits in the Conservative Party. We’re about to witness a big rift in the Labour Party, too,” he told party members in a keynote speech in Birmingham.
He added: ‘Before long, there’ll be Labour MPs that reckon they’ve got a better chance on the Jeremy Corbyn sectarian ticket … they’ve got a better chance of being re-elected under that ticket, under Corbyn, than they do under Sir Keir.’
He went on: ‘I think there is every chance now of a general election happening in 2027.’
The next election is scheduled to take place no later than August 2029. Labour has not indicated an election will be called earlier.
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Analysis: How Farage’s speech went down with the crowd
By Craig Munro, Metro’s Senior Politics Reporter
Reform UK has made a lot of its efforts to professionalise since the general election, and this one moment of spontaneity did backfire a bit.
I’d heard Nigel Farage’s speech was being brought forward by several hours, but the people in front of me hadn’t – they left their seats empty, and didn’t come back.
For the people who stayed, though, the leader’s speech seemed to be everything they wanted.
Last year, Farage’s climactic address at the party conference was weirdly downbeat, as if he couldn’t quite find his stride. Not this time.

He hit all the right notes for the Reform fans in the room, with the biggest cheers coming for his mention of the ‘Operation Raise the Colours’ flag campaign and a call to end prosecutions of British soldiers over actions in Northern Ireland.
Perhaps the moment that brought the most uncertain reaction was his introduction to the stage of ex-Tory culture secretary Nadine Dorries.
Conference attendees who I spoke to earlier on were not exactly unanimous in their approval for the defection, though they acknowledged she brings experience.
The theme of the conference is ‘next steps’, and Farage explained Dorries will be integral to those. During his speech, he revealed she’ll be a key figure in Reform’s new ‘department of preparing for government’.
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