Starmer Acknowledges Farage’s Reform UK Is Main Labour Rival

Keir Starmer said Britain’s main opposition Conservative Party is in decline and that the choice for voters is now between his governing Labour Party and the right-wing populist Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

“The Conservative Party has run out of road: their project is faltering, they’re in decline, they’re sliding into the abyss,” Starmer told reporters after delivering a speech attacking Farage at a manufacturing plant in northwest England. He warned that tax-and-spend plans outlined by Reform this week would risk a market meltdown similar to that in the fall of 2022 following then-Conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss’s so-called mini-budget, packed with tens of billions of pounds of unfunded tax cuts.