A fiery on-air clash erupted tonight as GB News presenter Nana Akua took aim at guest Fahima Mahomed for repeatedly interrupting during a heated debate about Reform UK.

Ms Mahomed accused Reform of using “divisive rhetoric” to inflame communities but struggled to provide examples when pressed.

Fahima Mahomed said: “The difference between Labour and Reform is when there is rhetoric being spewed to inflame and divide communities.”

Nana replied: “Be specific. Okay, which slogans and which rhetoric?

“Because otherwise, what you’re saying is just rhetoric.

“Be specific if you’re saying they’re doing something unacceptable, then what is that? Give me a slogan, give me an example.”

Ms Mahomed said: “I just said the slogans ‘us versus them’, you know, ‘people are coming over here’, and the idea that migrants are taking over, things like that.”

Nana retorted: “He’s never said that migrants are taking over. I’ve never heard that. What they have said is—”

Ms Mahomed said: “Other people have said that then.”

Nana questioned: “Who has said it?”

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Ms Mahomed: “It’s the general public who vote for them that even say if Reform comes in, people like myself and people like you should not be here.”

Nana said: “You’re saying people who support them, but you can’t be specific about who.”

Ms Mahomed finished off by saying: “Everyone thinks that Farage is the way forward, but it’s just a racist party.”

Nana fumed: “You are just talking over me. That does not make you right.”

Keir Starmer attacked Reform UK’s plan to deport thousands of people already legally living in the UK as “racist” and “immoral”, as he said that Labour had a generational struggle ahead with the populist right.

In Liverpool for his party conference, he said he did not think that Nigel Farage’s party was trying to appeal to racists, and that he understood people tempted to vote for Reform were frustrated and wanted change.

Mr Farage said he had “never before seen one individual so dominate” a rival party’s gathering, adding that Labour had launched “a constant attack” on him, his party and its policies.

The Reform UK leader accused Sir Keir Starmer and his Cabinet of “descending into the gutter” because they could not defeat Reform “on the arguments.”