Keir Starmer has warned that Britain faces an era-defining choice between Labour and the populist right, as he launched a scathing attack on Nigel Farage, saying the Reform leader neither “liked or believed in Britain”.
In a speech that drew the battle lines for the next general election, the prime minister said the UK stood at a fork in the road where “we can choose decency, we can choose division, renewal or decline”.
While the address at the Labour conference in Liverpool was light on policy, it signalled a notable change in voice for Starmer, who is languishing in the polls and had been urged to set out a clearer vision for the future.
The prime minister will now turn to the difficult economic choices ahead in the autumn budget, which is set to be another politically perilous moment.
“It doesn’t get easier from here. And the tough decisions, they will keep on coming,” he warned, dismissing calls for a wealth tax.
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