Thin-skinned Farage said the decision to call out his plans as racist ‘will incite and encourage the radical left’ and ‘directly threatens the safety” of his party’s campaigners’
Keir Starmer has hit back at Nigel Farage’s complaints that branding his immigration policy racist risked inciting violence against Reform.
Thin-skinned Farage said attacks on his plans to deport people who live in Britain legally “will incite and encourage the radical left” and “directly threatens the safety” of his party’s campaigners.
The Reform leader went on an 11-minute rant after the PM attacked him in a Labour conference speech, saying a person who argues that “people who have lived here for generations” should now be deported is “an enemy of national renewal”.
But the PM rejected his complaints – and said he wouldn’t back down in his fight against toxic politics.
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He told the Mirror: “That is not an accurate reflection of what I am saying. I am saying there is a fundamental fork in the road for our country.
“We can either go forward with a Labour government for patriotic national renewal, where we bring the whole country with us, our beautiful, tolerant, diverse country, or we can go for toxic division and decline that will, in my view, tear our country apart.
“I’m not going to back down from making that argument, because it’s a crucial argument to make for our country, the country that I love.”
It comes as Labour turned its fire on Reform, with top ministers lining up to tear apart the right-wing outfit.
The Prime Minister used his speech to say that voters had “reasonable” concerns about illegal migration but warned Farage and his right-wing cronies had crossed a “moral line” with a proposal to remove the right of some migrants legally living in Britain.
He said: “This party, this great party, is proud of our flags, yet if they are painted alongside graffiti, telling a Chinese takeaway owner to ‘go home’, that’s not pride, that’s racism.
“You say or imply that people cannot be English or British because of the colour of their skin, that mixed-heritage families owe you an explanation, that people who have lived here for generations, raised their children here, built lives here – working in our schools, our hospitals, running businesses – our neighbours, if you say they should now be deported, then mark my words, we will fight you with everything we have because you are an enemy of national renewal.”
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