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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Pippa Crerar and Eleni Courea

‘Decency or division’: Britain faces era-defining choice, Keir Starmer warns

Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria
Keir Starmer, pictured with his wife Victoria, said he was leading a ‘fight for the soul’ of the country against Reform UK. Photograph: Mark Cosgrove/News Images

Keir Starmer has warned that Britain faces an era-defining choice between Labour and the populist right, as he launched a scathing attack on Nigel Farage, saying the Reform leader neither “liked or believed in Britain”.

In a speech that drew the battle lines for the next general election, the prime minister said the UK stood at a fork in the road where “we can choose decency, we can choose division, renewal or decline”.

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