Sir Keir Starmer has said “lamps will go out in Europe” under Nigel Farage’s Reform UK – or Zack Polanski’s Green Party.

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference this morning, Sir Keir blasted: “It’s striking that the different ends of the spectrum share so much. Soft on Russia and weak on Nato – if not outright opposed.

Branding the parties as the “peddlers of easy answers on the extreme left and the extreme right”, Sir Keir told the audience of world leaders: “They are determined to sacrifice the longstanding relationships that we want and need to build, on the altar of their ideology.

“The future they offer is one of division and then capitulation. The lamps would go out across Europe once again. But we will not let that happen.”

In response, Nigel Farage said: “In a desperate attempt to save his job, Keir Starmer is attacking Reform UK today.

“This weak, unpatriotic Prime Minister caves in to China, gives away the Chagos Islands and refuses to properly fund our Armed Forces. He is on borrowed time.”

In his speech, the PM also announced the UK will deploy its carrier strike group to the North Atlantic and High North region as soon as this year, adding it will be led by the HMS Prince of Wales alongside the US, Canada and “other Nato allies”.

The British leader also received applause while declaring: “We are not the Britain of the Brexit years anymore.

“Because we know that in a dangerous world, we would not take control by turning inward, we would surrender it, and I won’t let that happen.

“That’s why I devote time as Prime Minister to Britain’s leadership on the world stage and that’s why I’m here today because I am clear there is no British security without Europe.”

Meanwhile, in Munich earlier today, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US and Europe “belong together”, declaring the fate of the continent will “never be irrelevant to our own”.

But he urged nations to change their course on matters of mass migration, saying it “is not, was not, some fringe concern of little consequences”.

He further warned the matter was “transforming and destablising societies all across the West”.

While he assured European leaders the US would support them, Mr Rubio pointed out the alliance but must mended, saying “we don’t want allies who are weak”.

The US is not interested in being “polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline”, he said.

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