Keir Starmer will take a swipe at Reform’s “path of division” as he addresses the Labour Party conference in Liverpool later today.
The Prime Minister will warn that Britain stands at a “fork in the road” and is expected to outline what he sees as the differences between Labour’s vision for Britain and Reform UK’s.
Taking to the stage later today, Sir Keir is expected to say: “It is a test. A fight for the soul of our country, every bit as big as rebuilding Britain after the war, and we must all rise to this challenge,” he will say, warning that the goal will not be achieved without a cost.
“We need to be clear that our path, the path of renewal, it’s long, it’s difficult, it requires decisions that are not cost-free or easy,” he is expected to say.
“Decisions – that will not always be comfortable for our party. Yet at the end of this hard road there will be a new country, a fairer country, a land of dignity and respect.”
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has attracted significant numbers of former Labour voters, according to polls, with Keir Starmer branding the party’s deportation policy as “racist” at the beginning of the conference.
In his speech, the Prime Minister will add: “We can all see our country faces a choice, a defining choice.
“Britain stands at a fork in the road. We can choose decency, or we can choose division. Renewal or decline.
“A country – proud of its values, in control of its future or one that succumbs, against the grain of our history, to the politics of grievance.”
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