Keir Starmer attacks ‘racist’ Farage plan to deport people settled in the UK

Prime minister says Reform proposal to abolish indefinite leave to remain could tear this country apart'

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Keir Starmer has 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.

The prime minister, in Liverpool for his party conference, 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.