Watch the moment GB News star Martin Daubney tears into Shabana Mahmood’s keynote Labour Party conference speech, saying it is the clearest indication yet that “battle lines are being drawn”.

He accused the Home Secretary of suggesting anyone who disagrees with the Labour Party is guilty of racism.

In her speech, Ms Mahmood warned a growing number of Britons are “on a path from patriotism towards ethno-nationalism”.

She vowed to crack down on migration and said voters will be seduced by Nigel Farage’s “false promises” if Labour continues to struggle.

Martin said on GB News that Ms Mahmood opened her speech with a remark that “took my breath away”.

“She referred to the 150,000 who marched under the banner of a criminal, she was talking about the Unite the Kingdom march”, he said.

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“She talked about how 26 police officers were injured. She didn’t tell us who injured them or how that happened.

“She said, ‘while I accept that not everyone there chanted racist chants, some did’, she said some of them were the ‘heirs to the skinheads of yesteryear’. Mr Mahmood said she did not feel valid.

“She spoke about a rise of patriotism, but a message of ethno-nationalism. She spoke about that a lot. We see speech after speech now from Labour Party luminaries referring to racism. Every single speaker has mentioned that.

“Shabana Mahmood has stood up and announced a tough new immigration policy. It sounds a lot about the Reform policy, right? Apparently the Reform policy is racist and Shabana Mahmood’s isn’t.”

Ms Mahmood highlighted the Tommy Robinson-organised march that took place in London earlier this month as a sign of growing divisions in society.

She said if Britain’s borders are not secured, division will get worse, as she set about announcing a much stricter criteria for people to be allowed to stay under indefinite leave to remain terms.

Shabana Mahmood announces new leave to remain criteria – WATCH

The Home Secretary announced a new criteria to qualify for leave to remain, which includes being in work, making National Insurance contributions and not claiming benefits.

Martin took issue with the term “ethno-nationalism”, saying Ms Mahmood was pushing a message that Britain is being dragged back to the 1970s.

“I don’t see that anywhere I go, I sincerely don’t”, he said.

“I travel the entire length and breadth of the nation. I don’t see people getting kicked in for the colour of their skin.

“Let’s not say it doesn’t happen, let’s not say we don’t have racists. Everybody has racists. It’s not just racists who happen to be white, by the way.

“We are hearing a vision of Britain from the Labour Party today which is the Labour Party seeming to insists it’s divided on skin colour, divided on race, divided in ways that can never be turned around unless we embrace a modern, patriotic vision as shared by the Labour Party.

“I wonder this out loud, I wonder if this is helping. I wonder if this is helping to smooth things over and calm down the national conversation that we’ve seen since the Southport murders, when everyone was called far-right.

“Is this helping or is calling everyone you disagree with racist not particularly helpful?”

Ms Mahmood’s targeting of indefinite leave to remain comes days after Nigel Farage’s Reform UK pledged to scrap the scheme.

Mr Farage said his party intends to replace it with a much tougher set of requirements for migrants to settle in the UK without the need to renew a visa every few years.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has hit out at Reform’s immigration policy, branding it “racist” and “immoral”.

He did not go so far as to condemn those supporting Reform UK, telling the BBC: “I think there are plenty of people who either vote Reform or are thinking of voing Reform who are frustrated.

“They had 14 years of failure under the Conservatives, they want us to change things.

“They may have voted Labour a year ago, and they want the change to come more quickly. I actually do understand that.”