Keir Starmer Slams ‘Unfunded’ Reform Manifesto as Threat Grows From Nigel Farage

Keir Starmer accused former Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage of making promises to British voters that the country cannot afford, in a preview of what polls suggest could become a key political battle over the next five years.

“If you don’t fund your manifesto, you just say you can have anything you like or anything you think is important,” Starmer told LBC radio, when asked why his poll-leading Labour Party won’t match a pledge by Farage’s insurgent Reform UK party to boost welfare support for some families. “Every single thing we are putting in our manifesto is fully costed and fully funded, and we’re going to say before the election the things we can’t afford to do.”