And the flags will matter; Farage’s supporters carry the red-and-white St George’s Cross to protests outside hotels used to house asylum seekers. They want migrants to go home. And they are winning in the polls. Starmer responded at the Labour gathering in Liverpool with a speech that labelled Farage a liar and called some of his activists racist. But he assured ordinary Britons that their demand for strong borders was not racism. In fact, he said, it was entirely reasonable. Britain’s Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage. Credit: AP In a key part of his address, he told the story of a woman who invited him into her home and told him how proud she was of her Asian neighbour