Nigel Farage ‘doesn’t believe in Britain’, Starmer tells Labour conference

Prime minister says choice is between ‘decency or division, renewal or decline’, amid rise of Reform UK

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Britain faces a “defining choice” between a patriotic Labour party promising national renewal or “division and decline” under the “snake oil merchant” Nigel Farage, Keir Starmer has said.

Speaking at the Labour party’s conference in Liverpool, the prime minister said he was engaged in a “fight of the soul of our country” with Farage’s Reform UK.