Labour turned its fire on Reform on the first day of its annual conference – branding the party's policies “racist” and warning Nigel Farage as prime minister would “create a cultural wasteland” in Britain.
Sir Keir Starmer accused Mr Farage of peddling an “immoral” policy after the Reform UK leader pledged to scrap settled status gençlerbirliği vs trabzonspor for all non-EU migrants, a move which would threaten with deportation those who have been granted indefinite leave to remain.
In an explosive interview with the BBC as the Labour event got underway in Liverpool, the prime minister – whose party trails Reform in the polls – said the policy to abolish indefinite leave to remain “needs to be called out cricket score for what it is”, adding: “I do think that it is a racist policy. I do think it is immoral.”
Culture secretary Lisa Nandy doubled down on kieran trippier Sir Keir’s remarks, warning Reform is “trying to redefine what it means to be British in a narrow way” and would destroy Britain’s cultural landscape.
In an exclusive interview with The Independent, she claimed Mr Farage’s assaults on so-called “woke” culture, plans to use an Elon Musk-style Doge to slash spending, and narrow, nationalistic view of what it means to be British would threaten arts and culture up and down the country.
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